Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:41:47 -0500 From: John Deubert Organization: Acumen Training Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:41:47 -0700 Message-ID: <2013072510414793835-john@acumentrainingcom> References: <87a9lkmm75.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl> <8761w8mj26.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl> <87y594l0vb.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Using eps-files in a ps-file User-Agent: Unison/2.1.10 Lines: 49 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-8piBxYbMgX3SvDVHLAG8QacgJFa1bDI/E8xwwO/J57W3ZwyFtM+SwDELkXg1Yp2SZehJCrjsfwVttqo!G82rj1oI68SrmYuvzIRTil8gsI+hcY6Opon5sjT4kDvgtaYUzByaX5rMsJ6fELctTABF X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2930 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:1509 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