Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!ptimtc!nntp-server.caltech.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!mass From: mass@hobiecat.cs.caltech.edu (Mass Sivilotti) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: converting postscript to encapsulated postscript Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 91 02:51:34 GMT References: <14010@adobe.UUCP> Sender: news@nntp-server.caltech.edu Reply-To: mass@hobiecat.cs.caltech.edu (Mass Sivilotti) Distribution: comp.lang.postscript Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: orthlieb@adobe.COM's message of 12 Apr 91 17:49:28 GMT >>>>> On 12 Apr 91 17:49:28 GMT, orthlieb@adobe.COM (Carl Orthlieb) said: Carl> An Encapsulated PostScript file (EPSF) is a standard format for importing and Carl> exporting PostScript language files in all environments. It is usually a Carl> single page PostScript language program that describes an illustration. The Carl> purpose of the EPS file is to be included as an illustration in other Carl> PostScript language page descriptions. The EPS file can contain any Carl> combination of text, graphics, and images. An EPS file is the same as any Carl> other PostScript language page description, with some restrictions. Carl> EPS files can optionally contain a bitmapped image preview, so that systems Carl> that can't render PostScript directly can at least display a crude Carl> representation of what the graphic will look like. There are three Carl> preview formats: Mac (PICT), IBM (tiff), and a platform independent preview Carl> called EPSI. Does anybody out there have a good way to generate these bitmapped previews, and include them in an EPSF file. In particular, Word for Windows on the PC would like a TIFF preview (and some other binary stuff) prepended onto a PostScript illustration. I have a large body of PostScript illustrations that would love to be imported into WfW. Any help would be appreciated. --mass (mass@hobiecat.cs.caltech.edu)