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In article <KRISHNA.91Feb18182501@bucasd.bu.edu>, krishna@bucasd (Krishna Govindarajan) writes:
>Does anyone know of a filter that will convert Postscript to
>Encapsulated Postscript ?

Cannot be done in general.  Consider:

I write a Postscript program that performs several CPU hours of numerical
analysis, and outputs either

[1] nothing, if it failed to find a solution.
[2] one page of output containing the solution it found.

The only way to figure out what value to put in the %%Pages field in
the EPS header is by actually executing the program and seeing what
happens.

(A more mundane example is a PS program that violates one of the contraints
of EPS.  For example, if it redefines macros in midstream, or downloads
a font in the middle of the document, thereby ruining any possibility
of performing page-reversal.  Some dvi-to-Postscript converters are guilty
of the latter.)

Remember, Encapsulated Postscript is a restricted form of Postscript.

My favorite analogy is viewing Postscript as the English language, and
Encapsulated Postscript as a restricted form of the English language
where you are only allowed to use words that appear on a list of 10,000
`permitted' words.