Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Bad PostScript Message-ID: Date: 24 Nov 89 18:27:08 GMT References: <12877@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 17 In-reply-to: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU's message of 23 Nov 89 01:46:45 GMT >>>>> On 23 Nov 89 01:46:45 GMT, rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) said: > a `validation' program. This simple C program would read in a PostScript > graphic following the structuring conventions and generate another, with > the included graphic scaled and rotated to perhaps halfsize in the middle > of the page. The output PostScript would also have drawn some things pathetic, isn't it, but I use TeX for this purpose, to read in an apparently valid bit of EPS and see if it can be scaled and placed on the page mixed with new input. doesn't answer your question, and I agree with you that what you describe would be an excellent thing to have around. -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)