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From: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers re-write -- not write!)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Encapsulated Postscript Driver?
Message-ID: <13362.2814799a@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 18:14:50 GMT
References: <1991Apr19.043851.24649@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> <69220022@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
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In article <69220022@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>, knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts) writes:
>>Which is the best laser printer setting to use to get true encapsulated
>>postscript, or is there a driver for encapsulated postscript?  Using a driver
>>for a DEC printserver, I can print, but the file isn't encapsulated so I can't
>>import it to Word Perfect.
> 
> It is not clear to me that a PostScript printer file generated by a
> software application such as Ventura or WfW can be re-imported by a word
> processor; I am experimenting with this myself. Eventhough the files are
> called 'EPS' by the various generating programs, they don't seem to be
> in the form that importing software expects them to be. I am quite
> confused about this. I have a *huge* need to be able to import such
> files, and am very anxious to learn how to do it.
In order to import and view an EPS file into Ventura, the file must have a 
bitmapped header.  When I convert a graphix file to EPS via Graphics Workshop, 
I can have the program create the header.  Unfortunately, I have yet to be
able to print an EPS file generated by GWS to a DEC Printserver 40.
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