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From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
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Subject: Re: Encapsulated Postscript to PIC converter tools
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Date: 18 Mar 91 18:28:29 GMT
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In article <1991Mar15.000421.15906@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <5528@tellab5.tellabs.com>, wiseman@tellabs.com (that's me!) writes:
>|> I am looking for a way to convert Encapsulated postscript into PIC or Ditroff
>|> format directly. Does anyone know of any tools
>|> (freeware/shareware/commercialware etc.) that can be used to achieve this?
>
>  Question: What does this have to do with Unix?

My fault :-) I should've indicated that I specifically needed a tool that would
run on a unix (specifically a SPARC) platform.

>  Comp.lang.postscript might have been more appropriate.

I did try there also. Problem is that I specifically need a tool rather than
the theory through which I could build one. I don't really have the time to
develop one of my own.

>  I believe there is code in the comp.sources.unix archives to include a
>PostScript file in a ditroff document (take a look at the "psfig" package), in

Jonathan, this sounds very much like what I might need. I have also had some
requests sent to me to pass this on if it should work.

I do not have ftp access to anywhere and I do not know how to access these
comp.sources.unix archives. Does anyone know if this psfig might help or how I
could get a copy?


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