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From: p_davis@epik.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript formats and PC programs!?
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Date: 20 Sep 90 15:48:00 GMT
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In article <285@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>, kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) writes...
> 
>I can't get AI to recognize any postscript or encapsulated postscript
>that is generated by any other program that I have such as:
>
It's difficult or impossible to write a program that can revise arbitrary
PostScript or EPS files in a meaningful.  There are so many features to the
language, and so many ways of expressing the same picture, that a given program
(such as Adobe Illustrator) will have no way of knowing what another program's
output means.

Actually, Computer Support Corporation in Texas claims to have an interpreter,
called Decypher, which can take arbitrary EPS files and put them into a format
that's revisable by their own illustration software, Arts & Letters.  I haven't
seen how well this works, so I can't comment on it.

It's also possible to write a program which understands specific EPS files, such
as those generated by Illustrator, etc.  However, the program would have to the
details about how the creating program uses EPS.

-pd