leslie@csli.Stanford.EDU (Leslie Kaelbling) (05/09/90)
Does anyone know of a draw program that will allow me to open a drawing, import some epsf files, draw some objects, then save the result as an epsf file (containing the imported epsf)? Canvas allows both importing and exporting, but the exported files cannot contain an imported file. If someone could try this experiment on Freehand or Illustrator, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Leslie Kaelbling leslie@csli.stanford.edu
jeff@spdcc.COM (Jeff Fabijanic) (05/09/90)
Leslie Kaelbling (leslie@csli.Stanford.EDU) writes: >Does anyone know of a draw program that will allow me to open a drawing, >import some epsf files, draw some objects, then save the result as an epsf >file (containing the imported epsf)? Sure, both Freehand and Illustrator do this. Freehand usually will not show you the imported espf files as anything other than boxes (this is not always true, but the exceptions are arcane and convoluted). Illustrator does a better job of displaying the imported files, but again, there are plenty of exceptions. Note that I am not a Postscript guru so I cannot tell you exactly why this is so - it is just my experience after using both for several years. As for saving with the imported espf info *in* the new file - this seems to depend on how you import it. One can "place" an imported file(s) in an already opened file, or open the espf file as the base file, or make it the template, or if your a wiz of a wiz, you can place the espf files' text in the new file (have several friends that do this all the time). If you simply make sure that you always have the original and new files together, it shouldn't make any difference whether the info is *truly* in the file or just flagged - the display/printout behave the same. Jeff (jeff@spdcc.com)