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Re: Using eps-files in a ps-file

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Op donderdag 25 jul 2013 19:41 CEST schreef John Deubert:

> 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

I already have written the preprocessor, but I will read this and
other journals. They look interesting.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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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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