Re: Using eps-files in a ps-file

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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

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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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