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Subject: Re: ps to gif?
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Date: 6 Jun 91 21:15:43 GMT
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Reply-To: werner@bio.NLM.NIH.GOV (Craig Werner)
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	One very very elaborate way to do it (which I do all the
time, though) is to print the PostScript file via one of the
various emulators into a different format. I use QMS/UltraScript
to print hand-coded PS into a PCX file. This can be faxed, or it
can be packed into a smaller greyscale PCX file with BIT2GRAY
or equivalent.  This PCX file can be displayed on screen with
VPIC and then written out to a GIF file, which takes up less room
than a PCX file.
	I didn't say it was simple, but by and large, the on
screen previewing comes out quite nicely.