nejdl@vexpert.uucp (Wolfgang Nejdl) (03/08/89)
We want to include Postscript files (e.g. pictures) produced by Windows applications into other documents (LaTeX) on a Unix machine. Although we can produce Postscript files by printing to a file under Windows, they are very difficult to include, because they contain code usable only for standalone printing of these files (e.g. showpage). Does anybody know a way how to produce includable Postscript files? It seems possible on a MacIntosh using EPS (encapsulated postscript format), although I don't know enough about the Mac to be sure. -- Wolfgang Nejdl nejdl@vexpert.uucp Technical University of Vienna vexpert!nejdl@uunet.uu.net Paniglg. 16, A-1040 Vienna, Austria ...mcvax!vexpert!nejdl
spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page) (03/11/89)
Micrografx supplies their own PostScript driver (MGXPS.DRV) with their latest versions of Designer and Draw Plus. This has an option to produce EPSF output: if you select it and choose Print, a box pops up asking what file name you want to save the file as. The resulting file looks like an EPSF file, but I've had problems with other programs recognizing it. Also, it only has the PostScript "fork", there's no bitmap image for programs to display in place of the PS code. I think this driver is an exact replacement for the Microsoft Windows PostScript driver, so it may work for other Windows applications. If you just want to convert a bitmap to Encapsulated PostScript, the HIJAAK utility supposedly converts between a whole bunch of formats including EPSF. I saw an old copy of this and it looked terrible, but it probably will do the job. There's a nice shareware Windows utility called EASEL which converts different bitmaps, maybe the latest/commercial version supports EPSF also. =S Page, GO Corporation spage@cup.portal.Com my opinions, not my employers, etc.
hsc@mtund.ATT.COM (Harvey Cohen) (03/14/89)
I use the Micrografx PS driver with Windows. When I want to embed a graphic in a troff document, I output it as EPS. The only glitch is that the troff macro I use looks for the Bounding Box information with a SPACE after the colon, e.g. BoundingBox: 1 1 100 100 while the Micrografx driver puts the numbers immediately after the colon. Not hard to filter, of course. -- Harvey S. Cohen / att!mtund!hsc || hsc@mtund.ATT.COM AT&T Bell Labs / LZ 3G301 / 201 576 3302 307 Middletown-Lincroft Rd. / Lincroft, NJ 07738 / U.S.A.