ps2epsi
(1)
Name
ps2epsi - generate conforming Encapsulated PostScript
Synopsis
ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epsi ] (Unix)
ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epi ] (DOS)
Description
Ghostscript Tools PS2EPSI(1)
NAME
ps2epsi - generate conforming Encapsulated PostScript
SYNOPSIS
ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epsi ] (Unix)
ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epi ] (DOS)
DESCRIPTION
ps2epsi uses gs(1) to process a PostScript(tm) file and gen-
erate as output a new file which conforms to Adobe's Encap-
sulated PostScript Interchange (EPSI) format. EPSI is a
special form of encapsulated PostScript (EPS) which adds to
the beginning of the file in the form of PostScript comments
a bitmapped version of the final displayed page. Programs
which understand EPSI (usually word processors or DTP pro-
grams) can use this bitmap to give a preview version on
screen of the PostScript. The displayed quality is often
not very good (e.g., low resolution, no colours), but the
final printed version uses the real PostScript, and thus has
the normal PostScript quality.
USAGE
On Unix systems invoke ps2epsi like this:
ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epsi ]
where "infile.ps" is the input file and "outfile.epsi" is
the resulting EPSI file. If the output filename is omitted,
it is generated from the input filename. When a standard
extension (".ps", ".cps", ".eps" or ".epsf") is used, it is
replaced with the output extension ".epsi". On DOS systems
the command is:
ps2epsi infile.ps outfile.epi
where "infile.ps" is the original PostScript file, and "out-
file.epi" is the name of the output file.
LIMITATIONS
Not every PostScript file can be encapsulated successfully,
because there are restrictions on what PostScript constructs
a correct encapsulated file may contain. ps2epsi does a
little extra work to try to help encapsulation, and it auto-
matically calculates the bounding box required for all
encapsulated PostScript files, so most of the time it does a
pretty good job. There are certain to be cases, however,
where the encapsulation does not work because of the content
of the original PostScript file.
COMPATIBILITY
The Framemaker DTP system is one application which under-
stands EPSI files, and ps2epsi has been tested on a number
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of PostScript diagrams from a variety of sources, using
Framemaker 3.0 on a Sun workstation. Framemaker on other
platforms should be able to use these files, although I have
not been able to test this.
FILES
ps2epsi Unix shell script
ps2epsi.bat DOS batch file
ps2epsi.ps the Ghostscript program which does the work
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | print/filter/ghostscript |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+--------------------------+
SEE ALSO
gs (1)
VERSION
This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.00.
However, the content may be obsolete, or inconsistent with
ps2epsi.txt.
AUTHOR
George Cameron
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-9.00.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://ghostscript.com/.
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