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From: philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil BARRETT)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: EPS rendering on screen.
Message-ID: <57507@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 90 14:59:36 GMT
References: <1866@abvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil BARRETT)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1866@abvax.UUCP> jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) writes:
>I use Pagemaker 3.01 under Microsoft Windows. One of it's downsides is that
>it does not render (on screen) EPS images. I don't necessarily expect
>a text processing program to have a built in Postscript interpreter but
>I was wondering if anyone knows of a Windows postscript interpreter that
>uses DDE. This way, you could have a seperate program do the screen imaging
>for you.
>

EPS stands for encapsulated postscript.  the whole point of EPS is to
provide a `header' that can be rendered on screen in systems that aren't
capable of displaying PS (i.e. allmost all Windows PCs).  If you want better 
on-screen display of your EPS files, the best way to do it currently is to
create a better header.  In coreldrw, you can control the header bitmap
and provide better quality (look in file/export).  I dont worry too much
about the on-screen display of EPS file since what matters to me is the size
and that works well enough for me in pagemaker.

It shouldn't be that hard to take an existing PS interpreter and make it work
as a windows `ps page previewer', though...  Its not something that I would use
that often since its likely to be pretty slow.

My opinions only,  not my employer's...
Phil