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Re: Importing ps files into WordPerfect

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From: Jingbin Cao ~{2>01r~}
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:07
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[Note: I'm reposting this because my previous post was not complete.]

In article <1e1oq6INN15v@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> leffler@physics.ubc.ca (Steve Leffler ) writes:
=>afarkas@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Farkas) writes:
=>
=>>Piece of cake.  In your graphics box specify the file name of your
=>>postscript file (assuming it's eps, of course), e.g. d:\pictures\123.ps.
=>
=>>This is far superior to converting to .wpg format.  As an earlier
=>>posting noted, you will only see the phrase Postscript information when
=>>you view the document.  When you print the document (on a ps printer),
=>>you will get the high-quality ps output you want.  Converting to wpg
=>>will allow you to view the graphic, but output quality goes way down.
=>
=>   PostScript files should be converted to .WPG files just like everything
=>else, at least with WP 5.1 for DOS (I assume other versions are the same).
=>When a PS file is converted from within WP (load, then switch to "graphic
=>on disk" and resave the image to a WPG file), the original PS codes are 
=>preserved (and you still can't view the image), but the resulting file loads
=>a LOT quicker than the original .PS file.

I've tried to convert some .ps or .eps files created by Mathematica to
.wpg files without success. I tried the conversion on both wp and the
wp graphics program (don't have the name at the moment). After the
conversions, I still got the message sounding like "graphics for
postscript printer" when previewing the graphics on the screen.
Obviously, the graphics are still written in postscript, which wp
cannot render, not in wpg. Though I can get the graphics printed
nicely on postscript printers. Am I missing something? I have wp
version 5.1.

Thanks in advance for any enlightments.
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From: jcao@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Jingbin Cao ~{2\>01r~})
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Subject: Re: Importing ps files into WordPerfect
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Date: 19 Nov 92 06:07:48 GMT
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