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- 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
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- References: <Bznw65.JD2@newcastle.ac.uk>
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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
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- --Dag Haakon Myrdal, dhmyrdal@pvv.unit.no -
- - Werchsmeister Emeritus, Omega Verksted, -
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