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In article <1991Feb19.011453.5797@agate.berkeley.edu>, raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) writes:
> 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:

..

> (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.)

But then again, how often do you want to include dvi to
PostScript output in another PostScript file? (the better
solution, I would say, is to use a dvi to dvi inclusion system).

Proper PostScript also tends to be very large and very slow in
the case of DVI translations. Especially for printers with little
memory and documents with many fonts. By downloading fonts
mid-stream, one can reduce memory requirements for printing a
complicated document. Having the option to create EPS is a nice
option, but I don't really see it as a viable standard for
translated DVI files.

-dh

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