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From: cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript to FM ?
Message-ID: <2745@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 89 02:03:00 GMT
References: <1073@uhnix1.uh.edu>
Reply-To: cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <1073@uhnix1.uh.edu> anthony@sun2.UUCP ( Anthony  M. Baldassarre ) writes:
]Hi folks,
]
]I am looking for a translator that would convert postscript
]into something readable by FrameMaker, e.g. MIF format. 

1) Forget it.  2) You don't need it in the first place.

1) MIF is low resolution.  I mean its addressable coordinates are in low res.
If your object is located at (72.3, 72.5) in point unit, the object is shifted
to (72, 73) to fit in MIF's coordinate grid.  Same thing will happen to the
objects' size.  Even if you can find such translator, how useful is it given
all the truncation?

2) PostScript is readable by FrameMaker.  FM can import EPSF.  If you put
   enough %% wrappers around your PostScript code, you can cheat FM.  I
   believe it looks for %! and %%BoundingBox etc.  I managed to import an
   synthetic EPSF (without a preview image) into FM.  FM complains about
   a missing image but it prints fine.  Of course, without the preview
   image you don't expect the image to show up on screen.  You can scale
   the enclosing box to get different size.

   Another alternative is to use the "printer code" command on the text
   rect that contains your PostScript code.  This is not as good as
   importing it, because the image is not controlled by the Text Rect
   around it in this approach.

   Frame has a translator to translate MacIntosh EPSF (with QuickDraw
   preview image) into unix EPSI (all-text-with-preview format)  However,
   this translator only works with Adobe Illustrator files.  I tried it
   with a FreeHand file, it did not work for me.  I may be wrong, you
   can check with Frame directly by sending e-mail to sun!frame!comments

Good Luck
   
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