anthony@csund.cs.uh.edu (Anthony M. Baldassarre) (02/16/89)
Hi folks, I am looking for a translator that would convert postscript into something readable by FrameMaker, e.g. MIF format. Great appreciation to the ones who would send me such thing, or inform me about its existence. --------------------- Anthony M. Baldassarre ( anthony@cs.uh.edu ) RCC/CRCC Department of Computer Science University of Houston
cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai) (02/23/89)
In article <1073@uhnix1.uh.edu> anthony@sun2.UUCP ( Anthony M. Baldassarre ) writes:
]Hi folks,
]
]I am looking for a translator that would convert postscript
]into something readable by FrameMaker, e.g. MIF format.
1) Forget it. 2) You don't need it in the first place.
1) MIF is low resolution. I mean its addressable coordinates are in low res.
If your object is located at (72.3, 72.5) in point unit, the object is shifted
to (72, 73) to fit in MIF's coordinate grid. Same thing will happen to the
objects' size. Even if you can find such translator, how useful is it given
all the truncation?
2) PostScript is readable by FrameMaker. FM can import EPSF. If you put
enough %% wrappers around your PostScript code, you can cheat FM. I
believe it looks for %! and %%BoundingBox etc. I managed to import an
synthetic EPSF (without a preview image) into FM. FM complains about
a missing image but it prints fine. Of course, without the preview
image you don't expect the image to show up on screen. You can scale
the enclosing box to get different size.
Another alternative is to use the "printer code" command on the text
rect that contains your PostScript code. This is not as good as
importing it, because the image is not controlled by the Text Rect
around it in this approach.
Frame has a translator to translate MacIntosh EPSF (with QuickDraw
preview image) into unix EPSI (all-text-with-preview format) However,
this translator only works with Adobe Illustrator files. I tried it
with a FreeHand file, it did not work for me. I may be wrong, you
can check with Frame directly by sending e-mail to sun!frame!comments
Good Luck
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