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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript to Encapsulated PostScript?
Message-ID: <181@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 8 Jun 90 23:29:02 GMT
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In article <25818@netnews.upenn.edu> jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (George J. Jefferson) writes:
>>The Mac version of Distill is probably available in the /info-mac
>>archives at SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.Edu.  I imagine that there may be a Unix
>                                                                    ^^^^
>>version available, but I'm not at all sure where to find it.
> ^^^^^^^
>From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George J. Jefferson)
>Path: eniac.seas.upenn.edu!jeffe
>
>Somebody confirm this - this would be very nice to have.
>
>Do I understand correctly that Distill brings back a ps file containing well
>behaved primitives rather than a raster image?

The Distillery is a PostScript program, and as such, there is only one
version of it.  There is also a hack Mac program called something like
DistillPS whose only purpose is to prepend the distill code to the front
of a file on the Mac and to collect the resulting PS file.  If you have
a copy of DistillPS, there should be a file called "still.ps" in your
System Folder that will work just fine from a UNIX system.  In fact, it
was developed on a UNIX system.

Yes, the Distillery returns well-behaved primitives rather than a raster
image.  They actually aren't quite primitives, but simple procedures that
are a bit more efficient with time and space than the native operators.

Glenn Reid
glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us
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