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From: tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: EPS, Improv, and TeX
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Date: 6 May 91 21:47:36 GMT
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In article <1991May6.192653.17696@neon.Stanford.EDU> zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman) writes:
>
>    A number of people have answered my original question by pointing out
>that the output of the print command is ps rather then eps.  I guess my
>real question is "How can one get EPS out of Improv, or Webster?"  If
>that is not possbile, my next question is "How can I convert the ps
>file from the print command into an EPS file?".

In many cases, the easiest way to get an eps file is to copy graphics to
the pasteboard and copy the pasteboard to a file using the paste command
in a terminal window, as follows:

localhost> paste > foo.eps

Examples where this works:

1. A eps image is received by NeXTMail.

2. Graphs in Improv (use Command-a to select all before copying. TeXview
chokes on the resulting eps file, but tex and dvips work fine).

3. Worksheets in Improv (Select the data you want, and then choose Copy as
Graphic from the Edit menu.)

4. Graphs in Mathematica.

This does not work with Webster. You can convert Webster tiff files to eps
using the tiff2eps utility.

Tim Van Zandt
tvz@princeton