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| From | John Deubert <john@acumentraining.com> |
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| Organization | Acumen Training |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.postscript |
| Date | 2013-07-25 10:41 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <2013072510414793835-john@acumentrainingcom> (permalink) |
| References | <87a9lkmm75.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl> <MPG.2c51a0f4ba1270a79898a7@usenet.plus.net> <8761w8mj26.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl> <MPG.2c51aef37b86d15a9898a8@usenet.plus.net> <87y594l0vb.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl> |
| Subject | Re: Using eps-files in a ps-file |
On 2013-07-18 08:37:44 +0000, Cecil Westerhof said: > Op donderdag 18 jul 2013 09:51 CEST schreef ken@spamcop.net: > >> In article <8761w8mj26.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl>, Cecil@decebal.nl >> says... >> >>>> You need to read section 3 "Guidelines for Importing EPS files" >>>> starting on page 13 >>> >>> I think I understand it, except: >>> ...Included EPS file here... >>> >>> Or is meant that the EPS file should be merged with the input file? >> >> Ordinarily an EPS file is included as a kind of black box into >> another document. On the application display you might get a little >> preview of what it looks like, or you might get some icon. When the >> document is printed to PostScript (and you can't easily include any >> EPS when printing to anything else) the EPS file is inserted >> verbatim at that point. >> >> So yes, that's the normal way to do it. In your case however you >> could just use the "(filename) run" method. > > At the moment it is all handwritten code. I am using a preprocessor > that includes my own libaries. It should not be to difficult to expand > it with including the eps files. Wil make things more secure, so a > good thing to do I think. The November 2004 Acumen Journal has an article that covers this in detail (entitled, cleverly, "Using EPS Files in Handwritten PostScript Code"). It's available free for the downloading at http://www.acumentraining.com/acumenjournal.html - John -- ======== John Deubert Acumen Training PostScript & PDF Engineering Classes & Consulting www.acumentraining.com Learn PostScript programming techniques Read the free Acumen Journal acumentraining.com/acumenjournal.html
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Using eps-files in a ps-file Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2013-07-18 08:11 +0200
Re: Using eps-files in a ps-file ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2013-07-18 07:52 +0100
Re: Using eps-files in a ps-file Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2013-07-18 09:19 +0200
Re: Using eps-files in a ps-file ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2013-07-18 08:51 +0100
Re: Using eps-files in a ps-file Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2013-07-18 10:37 +0200
Re: Using eps-files in a ps-file John Deubert <john@acumentraining.com> - 2013-07-25 10:41 -0700
Re: Using eps-files in a ps-file Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2013-07-29 09:05 +0200
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