whirt@cup.portal.com (William Bill Hirt) (02/16/91)
In message glenn@b17d.ingr.com (Glenn Scott at x7843) <1991Feb14.194854.24555@b17d.ingr.com> writes: >Does anyone know of a way to convert vector output from Professional Draw >2.0 to a vector format that CorelDraw on the PC can read? We are doing >illustrations on our Amiga 2000 to be loaded into a PC. The guy we're >doing the work for needs the drawings to be in vector format so that he >can manipulate them before printing. Here's what we've tried so far - I may of just run across a program here the other day which may solve your problem. The program is called EPS2EPSI.ZOO on Bix and ESP2ESPI.LZH on my BBS. Here is documentation file: Begin included text: EPS2EPSI Version 0.9 Copyright 1990, Integrated Systems Inc. Written by Chris Nicotra All rights reserved. This code is freely redistrubable for non-commerical use only. This program requires Adrian Aylward's post v1.1 library. "EPS2EPSI", EPS converts Encapsulated PostScript files into Encapsulated Postscript Interchange files. This means, it adds a simple bitmap representation of the postscript file so that the programs which allow ESP to be imported can easily show what is being included. It was written so that I could take EPS files that I have or created with Professional Draw and import them into FRAME Maker, a UNIX based Electronic Publishing System. Of course the output files can be used with any package that can import EPSI files. This is a quick and dirty program that gets the job done, there is no fancy user interface just command line options. It is run as follows: eps2epsi infile -o outfile The output file is optional, if left off the output will just go to standard output. Other options could be added like lower the resolution of the output image which would make the resulting files much smaller. Also, this code could easily be changed to generate the new Amiga IFF EPS files are ILBM files with embedded EPS chunks. The current verion does not do any error handling with the error codes returned by POST. All POST error messages will go to standard output. If you use this on a file created by Professional Draw, the ^D at the end of the file will cause an error message, but the file will still be convert properly. If nothing else this program is a simple example of how POST can be used in an application program. If anyone has any comments on EPS2EPSI, please let me know. - Chris Nicotra End included text. The latest version of Post is now 1.4 and is also available on my BBS as POST14.LZH. I do not have FTP access, so I can not mail these files to anyone. However, they are both file requestable from my BBS (Fidonet 1:280/304). Post is also available on the major BBS services while EPS2EPSI as far as I know is only on Bix. Hope this helps. Bill Hirt Sysop Amiga Central BBS (816) 587-5360 Fidonet 1:280/304 whirt@portal.com Bix: whirt GEnie: whirt