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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Advice on making color slides needed
Summary: another method for EPS-->PICT
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Date: 3 Nov 90 02:13:41 GMT
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In article <9780@helios.TAMU.EDU> jak9213@helios.TAMU.EDU (John Kane) writes:
>
> [stuff omitted]
>Your problem is that the Montage FR1 wants to print PICTs and you want to print
>an EPSF file. Well, just convert the EPSF file to a PICT. I am sure that there
>are a number of ways to do this, but the one that I am using is Aldus
>Persuasion 2.0 (I am doing a presentation and am using some EPSF graphics on
>my slides).
> [more stuff omitted]


If you don't have Persuasion, try this: in Illustrator, select the entire
graphic. Hold down the Option key while you copy. Paste to Scrapbook.
Voila! a PICT file.

This advice probably won't help you, but it may assist someone else: There
are lots of slide service bureaus that can directly image EPS files. I just
had ca. 60 EPS files imaged at Stokes Imaging in Austin, TX, for about $7
each (for 4K lines, one day service). This is by no means the cheapest price
around, but they're local and convenient. I sent them EPS files created in 3:2
aspect ratio (as I recall, I created a rectangle 600x400 pts and worked from
there) and they imaged without a flaw. I wish I could tell you what hardware
they're using, but I've been digging through my "current work" pile for a
few minutes now without success. Anyway... there ARE slide recorders that
can handle EPS files with no problem nowadays.


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