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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Changing the size of a drawing
Message-ID: <1991May15.153214.27349@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 15 May 91 15:32:14 GMT
References: <1991May14.165401.19685@mccc.edu>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1991May14.165401.19685@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>What follows is the beginning of a postscript program to produce a
>certain drawing.  I'd like to reduce the size to about 2" by 3",
>proportionally, but I know nothing about postscript programming.  Could
>someone suggest what I might do?  Thanks.

>%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2
>%%BoundingBox:5 40 715 530

If you want to continue knowing nothing about postscript programming
(a good idea IMHO...) then you should just use one of the many programs
that know how to handle EPS files.  If you intend to put the drawing
on a page of text, Wordperfect 5.1 would be a good choice.  If you
want to edit, warp, or otherwise distort the drawing or put text
in circles around it, or lots of other fun stuff, CorelDraw would
be a good choice, though you might still want to just save the modified
output as another EPS file and let Wordperfect print it along with
some normal text.

If you want something free, a set of programs called "psutils" was recently
posted to alt sources.  It included a program called epsfit that will
scale an EPS file to an arbitrary bounding box.  I don't think it knows
about EPS files that include the bitmap for viewing.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us