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From: gudmund@forit.forut.no (Gudmundur Joekulsson)
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Subject: Re: Inserting Mac PostsScript figures
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Date: 14 Mar 91 10:25:17 GMT
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In <9103121625.AA04765@brubeck.mps.ohio-state.edu> neumann@FUNCTION.MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU ("Walter D. Neumann") writes:

>I have Macintosh produced PostScript figures for insertion into a
>paper submitted to a Proceedings I am editing.  These figures request
>a procset "AppleDict md" which various people helped me find (in
>LaserPrep.ps). 

I gave up looking for "AppleDict md" and editing BoundingBox...

>.................................Ideal would be a header
>to prepend to the individual figures to turn them into
>device-independent EPSF files. (Prepending lprep68.pro works for some
>of the figures on some devices.)  Does anyone know a solution?
> 
>-walter

My solution is to use Aldus FreeHand 2.02 wich can Export proper EPSF files
with NO format (neither IBM or Mac) and including all neccessary 
modules.  It can Import figures/ drawings from almost any other Mac-app.
and put them out as EPSF. These I import directly into my LaTeX doc. by :

\begin{document}
\input epsf
....
\begin{figure}[htb]
\centerline{\epsfbox{freehandexport.ps}}
\caption{...}
\label{....}
\end{figure}
........

Using dvips 5.47 (Radical Eye Softw.) this works perfectly.  The only
negative thing is that FreeHand pictures print slowly, i.e. take long
(up to 10 min.) time processing in the printer, when complicated.  It is 
the same when you print directly from FreeHand, and realy is nothing to 
worry about, just be patient.

(the SUN-openwin pageview has some trouble with the figures, but f.ex. DEC's-
Postscript Previewer display them beautiful.)


Gudmundur S Joekulsson                    "nobody, not even the rain,
					   has such small hands".  
FORUT-IT				   E.E.Cummings (EEC ??!!)	
(Foundation of Applied Reserch
at the Univ. of Tromsoe
Norway)					   P.S. I hate wirdbooks, sorry.