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From: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: PC Paintbrush to PostScript conversion?
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Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 15:42:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 11 15:42:18 1987
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I would like to convert a binary output file from "PC Paintbrush" (a
software tool which comes with the Microsoft Mouse) into a file in
PostScript format.

The reason I want to do this is that I would like to combine pictures
drawn via PC Paintbrush with LaTeX documents processed on a VAX.  If I
can just transform the pictures into PostScript format, I can do what
I want with minimal extra trouble.

Is any software available for this purpose?  I could live with doing
the conversion either on my PC-XT clone (MS-DOS) or a VAX (4.xBSD UNIX).

Failing that, can anyone describe to me in detail the format of PC
Paintbrush's binary output files, so that I can write such a conversion
program myself?  I have looked at the PC Paintbrush files, and their
format does not seem transparently obvious.

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