Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!esquire!sbb From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Encapsulated Postscript to Postscript Message-ID: <713@esquire.UUCP> Date: 17 Oct 88 23:01:34 GMT References: <415@pyuxf.UUCP> <897@galaxy> Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Distribution: na Organization: DP&W, New York, NY Lines: 15 In article fp0a+@andrew.cmu.edu (F. Pierce, III) writes: >On a Mac, the screen bitmap is stored as a PICT resource in the EPSF >file. To convert to text -- that is, to extract the "raw" postscript >-- just use ResEdit to delete the PICT resource and convert the file >type from "EPSF" to "TEXT." Just to clarify a little: all you have to do is change the file type to TEXT. Comm programs and WPs generally don't care about whether there's a PICT in the resource fork, since the ASCII is in the data fork. -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." {uunet,cmcl2}!esquire!sbb | sbb%esquire@cmcl2.nyu.edu | - David Letterman