dauria@bucsf.bu.edu (David DAuria) (06/07/91)
I was just wondering if there was a program to convert .ps files(postscript) to gif format. There are several of these on the computer at B.U. and the only way I know to use them is to print them on their printers. I would like to convert them to gif or some other format that can be displayed on an MS-Dos machine then download it to my computer. I've seen a program to convert gifs to ps but not vice versa. Any body got any ideas? David D'Auria dauria@bucsf.bu.edu
usenet@nlm.nih.gov (usenet news poster) (06/07/91)
One very very elaborate way to do it (which I do all the time, though) is to print the PostScript file via one of the various emulators into a different format. I use QMS/UltraScript to print hand-coded PS into a PCX file. This can be faxed, or it can be packed into a smaller greyscale PCX file with BIT2GRAY or equivalent. This PCX file can be displayed on screen with VPIC and then written out to a GIF file, which takes up less room than a PCX file. I didn't say it was simple, but by and large, the on screen previewing comes out quite nicely.