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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
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Subject: Re: GEM --> Illustrator ?
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Date: 24 Oct 89 20:19:38 GMT
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In article <227700049@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> You also might want to try a different program.  FreeHand can import 
postscript,

Illustrator 88 will import EPSF files.  You can only stretch, rotate, etc. 
the file as a unit, however.  (Ie, you can't edit the internal parts of 
the illustration.)

I think your analysis of what Illustrator can read is correct.  It defines 
its own Postscript operators and has its own header defining those 
operators.  It isn't possible (in general) to recover the high-level 
illustration structure (in terms of retangles, ...) from an arbitrary 
Postscript file.

There are programs on the Macintosh that generate the corresponding 
Illustrator files from PICT files or from font files.  If GEM EPSF files 
have a regular structure to them, then in theory one could translate the 
GEM definition of a rectangle to the Illustrator definition.  You might 
need to do some experimentation to figure out the respective formats.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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