Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!prism!msd!rhoward From: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Converting .ps to .eps Message-ID: Date: 31 May 91 17:51:03 GMT References: <15708@adobe.UUCP> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute Lines: 31 Beginner question alert!: orthlieb@adobe.COM (Carl Orthlieb) writes: >There is a PostScript program available on our mail server called 'epsfinfo.ps' >that should do what you want. You tack it onto the head of your PS file >and then send it down to the printer using SendPS or LaserTalk. You will >then get back the bounding box and font usage info for your PS file. If >you then change the top of your file to read: > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 > %%BoundingBox: > %%DocumentFonts: ... Would it be possible to get GhostScript to do this? Has anyone done this? Ideally, a perl (or whatever) program could invoke the epsinfo.ps program to GhostScript (with your file of course) then take the answer back, stick it onto the PS file and, viola, an EPS file on stdout... ...now if we could just get a PC TIFF type image header on top too... Thanks, Robert -- | Robert L. Howard | Georgia Tech Research Institute | | rhoward@msd.gatech.edu | MATD Laboratory | | (404) 528-7165 | Atlanta, Georgia 30332 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Reality is showing us that perhaps we should do with nuclear | | power the same thing Keloggs is advocating for Corn Flakes - | | Discover it again for the first time." -- John De Armond |