hind@spunky.NYU.EDU (Michael Hind) (01/29/91)
Hi, I am trying to include a PostScript file produced by Framemaker into a LaTeX document. I have been using the Psfig macro (Version 1.3) by Trevor Darrell, but am having some trouble. I am able to compile the document by running LaTeX, but when the document is printed (using dvips), the printed version does not include anything from the PostScript file; only the caption from my "figure" command is printed. Does anyone have any ideas what is happening? Thanks in advance, Michael Hind
hind@SPUNKY.CS.NYU.EDU (Michael Hind) (01/30/91)
From hind@SPUNKY.CS.NYU.EDU Wed Jan 30 02:00:18 1991 Received: from SPUNKY.CS.NYU.EDU by cmcl2.NYU.EDU (5.61/1.34) id AA01356; Wed, 30 Jan 91 02:00:18 -0500 Received: by SPUNKY.CS.NYU.EDU (5.61/1.34) id AA09639; Tue, 29 Jan 91 22:03:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 91 22:03:40 -0500 From: hind@SPUNKY.CS.NYU.EDU (Michael Hind) Message-Id: <9101300303.AA09639@SPUNKY.CS.NYU.EDU> To: rnews@cmcl2.NYU.EDU Path: spunky!hind From: hind@spunky.NYU.EDU (Michael Hind) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Using a PostScript File from Framemaker in LaTeX Summary: A Question regarding the Subject Keywords: Framemaker, PostScript Message-ID: <hind.665093311@spunky> Date: 28 Jan 91 20:08:31 GMT Organization: New York University Lines: 13 Hi, I am trying to include a PostScript file produced by Framemaker into a LaTeX document. I have been using the Psfig macro (Version 1.3) by Trevor Darrell, but am having some trouble. I am able to compile the document by running LaTeX, but when the document is printed (using dvips), the printed version does not include anything from the PostScript file; only the caption from my "figure" command is printed. Does anyone have any ideas what is happening? Thanks in advance, Michael Hind
jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley) (01/31/91)
FrameMaker PostScript is screwy! (Bug Frame Technologies.)
This is something that someone on the framers mailing list sent me
a while back. I haven't tried it though. Usually, I just do an
X-window dump (or an !dc in maker) to get the image. Then I used
the PBMPLUS utilities to get a PostScript file.
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From: Harry Bochner <bochner@das.harvard.edu>
Here's something (somewhat old) that I grabbed off USENET;
hope it helps, I haven't tried it ...
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From: jch@sppy00.UUCP (HANDLEY JOHN C)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Framemaker 2.0 PostScript in LaTeX
Date: 6 Jun 90 19:32:25 GMT
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I had some success in getting a Framemaker 2.0
PostScript figure into LaTeX using
ArborTex's dvips by doing the
following:
1) commenting out the showpage command in /FMENDPAGE
2) commenting out the xscale yscale stuff in /FMBEGINPAGE
and putting my own scaling factors in.
3) putting translate parameters in once I knew
where LaTeX wanted to put the figure on the page.
4) changed "1 1 612 792 0 1 2 FMDOCUMENT" to
"1 1 360 360 0 1 2 FMDOCUMENT"
since I had a 5 inch by 5 inch figure.
5) changed "0 0 612 792 C" to "0 0 612 648 C"
The C function appears to clip. I simply
adjusted on the the parameters so that it didn't
chop out anything visible on the page.
I'm sure some more rational and patient person can
figure out how to do it right and consistently.
Also, the X/NeWS tool pageview complains about these
Framemaker PostScript files but is able to display them.
Shame on Frame!
John Handley
jch@rsch.oclc.org
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James Darrell McCauley (jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu, jdm5548@tamagen.bitnet)
Agricultural Visualization Lab, Department of Agricultural Engineering,
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2117, USArusty@belch.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) (01/31/91)
I asked Tom Rokicki for help on this and he couldn't get it to work due to the wacky postscript output produced by Frame. Apparently the postscript header Frame uses does bad things.
jay@ctr.columbia.edu (Jay Hyman) (02/01/91)
Enclosed is a shell script which can create EPSF files out of standard
single-page FrameMaker 2.0 documents in either portrait or landscape mode.
(It also accepts two other types of input files.)
It inserts (precomputed) bounding boxes corresponding to these two page sizes.
The output files can then be included in a LaTex document using the psfig
macro. Here at Columbia, we have found it relatively painless to include
Frame Maker figures in our LaTeX documents.
[BTW, we are using an old (1987) version of (Rokicki's ?) dvips,
and it works just fine ... I hope newer versions work just as well...]
Three caveats:
1) For this filter to be effective, your figure needs to fill the
entire page of the Frame maker document, because the figure will be shrunk
till the whole page fits in the space you allocate for the figure.
2) The full Frame Maker PostScript prolog is included in each .ps file, and
hence in each .eps file in this simple approach. This makes for very slow
printing if a paper contains a significant number of figures. I looked
briefly at the possibility of preloading the FM Dictionary and deleting the
full prolog from all but the first such figure included in a paper, but
I gave up fairly briefly because I don't understand too much about how
PostScript works and don't have the time to learn. (If anyone out there who
is more knowledgable wants to give it a shot...)
3) As mentioned, this stuff is for the PostScript output from FrameMaker
Version 2.0. I don`t believe it works with 1.x, and I don't know about
anything later.
Example usage:
(Frame maker figure in landscape mode saved as fig.ps)
(command to shell...)
> psfilt fmland fig.ps fig.eps # to create the eps file
(in LaTeX document:)
\begin{figure}[thb]
\centerline{\psfig{figure=fig.eps,height=4.5in}}
\caption{\label{fig:maker}
\protect{This figure was made by Frame Maker.}}
\end{figure}
And finally, here is the script, which was hacked together by
Giovanni Pacifici, with some help from me,
Jay Hyman jay@ctr.columbia.edu
Center for Telecommunications Research Columbia University
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#!/bin/sh
#
# psfilt: filter to translate various PostScript files to EPSF
#
# Copyright (c) 1991, Giovanni Pacifici
#
# Permission is granted to copy and distribute this file in modified
# or unmodified form, for noncommercial use, provided (a) this copyright
# notice is preserved, (b) no attempt is made to restrict redistribution
# of this file, and (c) this file is not distributed as part of any
# collection whose redistribution is restricted by a compilation copyright.
#
trap 'echo interrupt; exit' 1 2 3 9 15
if test $# -ne 3
then
echo "This Program Translates Frame Maker, Mathematica and Splus"
echo "PostScript Files into Encapsulated PostScript Files."
echo "You can include these files directly into Latex Documents."
echo "To Run The Filter use:"
echo " "
echo $0 "filetype InputFile OutputFile"
echo " "
echo "filetype can be one of the following:"
echo " fmland: Specifies that the input file is a Frame Maker"
echo " PostScript in Landscape Format"
echo " fmport: Specifies that the input file is a Frame Maker"
echo " PostScript in Portrait Format"
echo " Splus: Specifies that the input file is a Splus"
echo " PostScript in Landscape Format"
echo " Math: Specifies that the input file is Mathematica"
echo " PostScript"
echo " "
exit
fi
case $1 in
fml*)
echo "PostScript To EPSF Filter"
echo "Converting Landscape Frame Maker File:" $2
echo "Output to File:" $3
cat $2 | \
nawk '
BEGIN { }
{
if ($0 ~ "^%%BoundingBox")
{
print $1 " 180 180 612 792"
}
if ($0 ~ " FMDOCUMENT")
{
print $1, $2 " 2 2 " $5, $6, $7, $8
}
if ($0 ~ " 1 FMBEGINPAGE")
{
print $1, $2 " 0 " $4
}
if ($0 !~ " 1 FMBEGINPAGE" && $0 !~ " FMDOCUMENT" && $0 !~ "^%%BoundingBox")
{
print $0
}
}
END {
}
' > $3 ;;
fmp*)
echo "PostScript To EPSF Filter"
echo "Converting Portrait Frame Maker File:" $2
echo "Output to File:" $3
cat $2 | \
nawk '
BEGIN { }
{
if ($0 ~ "^%%BoundingBox")
{
print $1 " 0 0 612 792"
}
if ($0 ~ " FMDOCUMENT")
{
print $1, $2 " 2 2 " $5, $6, $7, $8
}
if ($0 !~ " FMDOCUMENT" && $0 !~ "^%%BoundingBox")
{
print $0
}
}
END {
}
' > $3 ;;
Sp*)
echo "PostScript To EPSF Filter"
echo "Converting Landscape Splus File:" $2
echo "Output to File:" $3
cat $2 | \
nawk '
BEGIN { }
{
if ($0 ~ "^%%BoundingBox")
{
print $1 " 20 150 792 792"
}
if ($0 ~ "Landscape true def")
{
print $1, "false", $3
}
if ($0 ~ "^/Region ")
{
print "/Region [20 150 792 792] def"
}
if ($0 !~ "Landscape true def"&& $0 !~ "^/Region " && $0 !~ "^%%BoundingBox")
{
print $0
}
}
END {
}
' > $3 ;;
ma*)
echo "PostScript To EPSF Filter"
echo "Converting Mathematica File:" $2
echo "Output to File:" $3
cat $2 | \
nawk '
BEGIN { }
{
if ($0 ~ "^%!")
{
print $0
print "%%BoundingBox: 0 100 612 632"
}
else
{
print $0
}
}
END {
}
' > $3 ;;
*)
echo 'unexpected name:' $1 ;;
esac
--
Jay Hyman jay@ctr.columbia.edu
Center for Telecommunications Research Columbia University