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From: sage@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (David Martosko '91)
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Subject: Re: Freehand to Illustrator
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Date: 3 Aug 89 21:49:40 GMT
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In article <89214.141326JAH4@PSUVMXA> JAH4@PSUVMXA.BITNET (JEFFREY A. HAMMAN) writes:

>     ALL EPS clip art is supplied in Adobe EPS format if they
>     advertise that you can manipulate it in a postscript drawing
>     program such as Adobe Illustrator or Aldus FreeHand.
>
>If this is not the case and there is no way to put, place, or hack at
>an image supplied in Aldus FreeHand EPS into Illustrator and if
>Illustrator is the only program that you own.......what was that
>old cliche about being up the creek?

>******************Standard disclaimers apply.********************

I have had minimal success (~25% of the time) by opening the EPS file with
a text editor and changing the headers of the document to Adobe's.  If you
open any Illustrotor 88 document with a text editor, there's about 12 lines
of Postscript commenting (beginning with the % character) which must be there
in order to open the document with Illustrator.  They contain information about
which program created the file, etc...when I am in a real bind I try and copy
this information out and paste it into a Frehand document over Aldus' header.

If you are really in the mood to hack around with Postscript, Adobe puts out
a "cookbook" for Postscript which describes their format quite well...I'd bet
that the time you spend learning about the language would be less than the
time it takes to re-trace and clean up the imags in Illustrator from a template.
If you feel like buying Streamline, do it, but scan the image from a Freehand
print-out and save it as a TIFF file for best results there.  In my opinion,
Streamline is a Kludgy program anyway...worth what it costs, but still has a
long way to go...

Standard disclaimers apply....
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