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From: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript formats and PC programs!?
Message-ID: <820@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 90 20:56:51 GMT
References: <1684@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Reply-To: ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries)
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1684@shodha.enet.dec.com> p_davis@epik.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) writes:
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->In article <285@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>, kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) writes...
[...]
->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.

I have it and have used it, so I can comment on it.  I believe that CSC
actually licenses Decipher from another company (who I belive sells it
under there own name, also).  In any case, Decipher breaks the eps into
three catagories:

   1. The fonts, if applicable, are mapped to the closes CSC font.
   2. The raster image(s), if applicable, are separated info tif file(s).
   3. What's left, if anything, is tranformed into the CSC GED vector format.

They are currently working on an improved, Windows 3.0 version of Decipher.