jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) (09/17/90)
I use Pagemaker 3.01 under Microsoft Windows. One of it's downsides is that it does not render (on screen) EPS images. I don't necessarily expect a text processing program to have a built in Postscript interpreter but I was wondering if anyone knows of a Windows postscript interpreter that uses DDE. This way, you could have a seperate program do the screen imaging for you. BTW, I sometimes import the file into Corel Draw, then re-export it to an EPS file. Corel Draw will put an image header into the Postscript file but Corel draw seems to fail on many of the images that I have tried with it. It does not handle gray scale .PCX files, nor will it handle EPS files with certain embedded fonts such as Finale files. -jaz | Jack A Zucker {cwjcc,pyramid,decvax,uunet}!jaz@icd.ab.com | | Allen-Bradley Company, Inc. or ICCGCC::ZUCKER | | 747 Alpha Drive | Highland Hts., OH 44143 phone: (216) 646-4668 FAX: (216) 646-4484 |
philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil BARRETT) (09/18/90)
In article <1866@abvax.UUCP> jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) writes: >I use Pagemaker 3.01 under Microsoft Windows. One of it's downsides is that >it does not render (on screen) EPS images. I don't necessarily expect >a text processing program to have a built in Postscript interpreter but >I was wondering if anyone knows of a Windows postscript interpreter that >uses DDE. This way, you could have a seperate program do the screen imaging >for you. > EPS stands for encapsulated postscript. the whole point of EPS is to provide a `header' that can be rendered on screen in systems that aren't capable of displaying PS (i.e. allmost all Windows PCs). If you want better on-screen display of your EPS files, the best way to do it currently is to create a better header. In coreldrw, you can control the header bitmap and provide better quality (look in file/export). I dont worry too much about the on-screen display of EPS file since what matters to me is the size and that works well enough for me in pagemaker. It shouldn't be that hard to take an existing PS interpreter and make it work as a windows `ps page previewer', though... Its not something that I would use that often since its likely to be pretty slow. My opinions only, not my employer's... Phil
jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) (09/19/90)
In article <57507@microsoft.UUCP>, philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil BARRETT) writes: > > EPS stands for encapsulated postscript. the whole point of EPS is to > provide a `header' that can be rendered on screen in systems that aren't > capable of displaying PS (i.e. allmost all Windows PCs). If you want better > on-screen display of your EPS files, the best way to do. No, that is not the point of EPS. The point of EPS is that it is a self contained "sub-routine" that does not change the state of any of the global postscript variables. It also defines a bounding box size that the host application uses to determine what space to allocate to it on the page. Now granted, it does provide for a bit-mapped header to be placed in the file for previewing purpose, however the preview is many times grossly inaccurate. I've found when cropping pictures for example, that the bitmap does not register exactly with the postscript, causing WYSINWYG (What you see is not what you get). -jaz | Jack A Zucker {cwjcc,pyramid,decvax,uunet}!jaz@icd.ab.com | | Allen-Bradley Company, Inc. or ICCGCC::ZUCKER | | 747 Alpha Drive | Highland Hts., OH 44143 phone: (216) 646-4668 FAX: (216) 646-4484 |