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From: jeffa@janderholm.lotus.com (Jeff Anderholm)
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Subject: Re: EPS, Improv, and TeX
Keywords: Improv charts can be Saved To EPS
Message-ID: <1991May24.163934.11095@lotus.com>
Date: 24 May 91 16:39:34 GMT
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In article <9157@idunno.Princeton.EDU> tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van  
Zandt) writes:
> 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

In Improv's Presentation Builder, you can also use File Save To and select EPS  
to get a chart image for importing into other documents.

Jeff Anderholm
Lotus