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Re: possible to save ASCII postscript from Quark?

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From: Michael Rowland
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 01:25
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dws@ssec.wisc.edu (DaviD W. Sanderson) writes:

> Is it possible to save something from Quark in ASCII encapsulated
> postscript form?  I've been trying to help someone save an image from
> Quark in encapsulated postscript format, and all he can get is a
> postscript file with a binary header and trailer, with all the newlines
> in the postscript text removed.  Since the newlines in the postscript
> text are all gone, the postscript text has the tokens at the end of
> what would have been lines 'glued' to the tokens at the beginning of
> what would have been following lines.  This makes the postscript text
> useless.
> 
> If there isn't a way to save the figure as ASCII EPS, does anyone have
> a program which can read the Quark binary EPS format and produce
> regular ASCII EPS?  I imagine the binary header and trailer record
> where the newlines should be....
> 
> DaviD W. Sanderson (dws@ssec.wisc.edu)

Have you tried to "Place" the EPS as artwork within Adobe Illustrator? 
I've had some success that way. You also might try [oddly enough] Placing 
it in PageMaker.

jmr

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