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From: jackd@copper.WR.TEK.COM (Jack Decker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Post Script
Keywords: ps post script postscript
Message-ID: <380@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 89 16:48:52 GMT
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <937@dutrun.UUCP> johan@dutnak2.UUCP (Johan de Haas) writes:
>
>On our UNIX machine we have a graphics package that is able to generate
>EPSF files. The EPSF files, however, have no associated screen preview.
>If imported in e.g. PowerPoint, they only show a bounding box.
>
>I know that the screen preview is a bitmap that should reside in a PICT
>resource of the EPSF file. Is Smart Art capable of generating such an
>EPSF file with PICT resource? If so, could you explain how cumbersome
>the procedure is?


All you should have to do is remove the "Show Page" command from the end of your
EPSF file, open the file up with Smart Art (a DA), and then click the Reimage
command.  Smart Art then sends the file out to your LW and after a few minutes
of processing (about the time it takes to print) it returns a bitmap image
of your file.  Once the file has been saved, you can then import the file into
PageMaker, PowerPoint, ect. and you will see a screen preview rather than just a
bounding box.  When you print, of course, the underlying PostScript is used, not
the bitmap image.


Hope this helps.

jack decker
Tektronix
Beaverton, OR