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From: scott@NIC.GAC.EDU (Scott Hess)
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Subject: Re: EDITABLE graphics translation posting response
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Date: 6 Dec 90 16:32:42 GMT
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In article <1990Dec6.044238.11881@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) writes:
   I would simply like to see something to allow me to move EPS files from
   my Mac. Maybe I'm missing something simple, which wouldn't surprise me.
   I have quite a few megs of eps clip art on my Mac, and I would like to
   port it to the Cube, and use it with Frame. 

   However, after sending the file with Kermit, I can't get either Frame
   or Yap to read it properly. 

Brave souls out there can do something about this.  The main reason NeXT
don't like some .eps files is that they don't "fully conform".  Presumably
with the NeXT's idea of "conformance".

How I've fixed this in general is to load the file in question into
Edit, and use something to generate a NeXT-compatible file on disk
(say, Print a page or two, and save to file).  Often the problems
are simply in the format of the first couple lines of the file,
or maybe the last couple.  Sometimes adding a single like will make
all the NeXT programs love the file to death . . .

As I said, though, only do this if you are a Brave Soul.  This shouldn't
be all that hard for clip art, because most clip art will be in relatively
short documents (ie, a single page), so you need to go through a 300
page manuscript editing page layout commands . . . :-)