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From: ralph@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Ralph Brandi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Another EPS question
Keywords: EPS Macintosh
Message-ID: <3452@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 90 14:17:21 GMT
References: <18981@mikado.super.ORG>
Reply-To: ralph@lzfme.ATT.COM (Ralph Brandi)
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In article <18981@mikado.super.ORG> chris@super.UUCP (Chris P. Ross) writes:

>  Excuse me, this was probably just my own stupidity.  But, as far as I

Well, you said it, not me.... :-)

>know to this point, the only way's to generate EPS from a Mac was to use
>either the CMD-F or the CMD-K print options.  Is there a way to generate
>EPS so as not having to use these?  If so, you may be right, but with the

The "PostScript" generated by Command-F or -K is not considered EPS,
or anything near it.  I don't think there's really a specific name
for it, except maybe "that munged-up code that LaserPrep produces."
EPS is a specific subset of PostScript (there's a document from
Adobe that describes the specifics).  Applications like Adobe
Illustrator and Aldus FreeHand have options where you can save or
export the current file as an EPS file, which is limited to one
page, and can then be read into other programs, like PageMaker.  If
you look at the code within an EPS file, it's more easily readable
than Command-F stuff, and there's a definite difference.

Hope this helps (yeah, Ralph, it's clear as mud now....)
-- 
Ralph Brandi     ralph@lzfme.att.com     att!lzfme!ralph

Work flows toward the competent until they are submerged.