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Article #505Re: EPS
From: Dag H}kon Myrdal
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:02
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:02
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In article <Bznw65.JD2@newcastle.ac.uk> you write: >3. Set the file type to &808 (EPS) and try to convert it back to a DrawFile. >!EPSobject refuses to do this giving an "End of file" error. >What's going wrong? >-- Adrian. !EPSobject isn't a PostScript-interpreter... It relies on a certain type of EPS files, where the PostScript commands have certain defined abbreviations, like 'M' for 'move' etc. This is true for Encapsulated PostScript as made by Adobe Illustrator, but very few other programs define exactly the same abbrevations. So, to read *any* EPS file, you would need a better converter. There are also a PostScript program called 'distill', which can be run using GhostScript that take as input any PostScript file, and make it into a simpler EPS-file. Used two or more times one the same file, this seem to end up with a file that !EPSobject will read. --Dag Haakon -- --Dag Haakon Myrdal, dhmyrdal@pvv.unit.no - - Werchsmeister Emeritus, Omega Verksted, - - Idrettsveien 29, N-5037 BERGEN, NORWAY - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!aun.uninett.no!flipper.pvv.unit.no!flipper.pvv.unit.no!dhmyrdal From: dhmyrdal@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Dag H}kon Myrdal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech Subject: Re: EPS Date: 23 Dec 1992 20:02:49 GMT Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet - UNIT Lines: 28 Distribution: comp Message-ID: <1hagl9INN485@flipper.pvv.unit.no> References: <Bznw65.JD2@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: flipper.pvv.unit.no