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Re: making real postcript graphs????

  • Subject: [mg2627] Re: making real postcript graphs????
  • From: ianc (Ian Collier)
  • Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:00:02 -0500
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  • Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.

In article <49dof9$8a6 at dragonfly.wri.com>, fjl0014 at ucs.usl.edu (Lombardo
Fernando J) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What needs to be done to the file created by Display so that
> it is a real postcript file. The file that Display creates
> is not a complete postcript file. 
> how can I do this?? Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>                           Fernando Lombardo
>  Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana      EECE              DA CAJUNS!!!  
>   fjl at usl.edu    URL:  http://www.ucs.usl.edu/~fjl0014/index.html  
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 

Mathematica uses its own dialect of PostScript and that is what
is written to files by Display. The best way to create a standard
PostScript file depends exactly what computer platform you are
using.

On Macintosh and Windows systems you can use the front end's 
export features to create encapsulated PostScript files. On 
Unix platforms you can use either psfix or rasterps to convert 
files from Mathematica PostScript to Standard PostScript (and 
other formats).

If you have a file containing Mathematica PostScript called
"mygraphic.ps" (for example) then either

    psfix mygraphic.ps > mygraphic2.ps

or

    rasterps -format ps -file mygraphic2.ps mygraphic.ps

will create a new file "mygraphic2.ps" containing a standard
PostScript representation of the graphic.

For further details refer to the Mathematica User's Guide for
your version of Mathematica.

If you need further help with this I would suggest that you
contact Wolfram Research Technical Support (support at wri.com,
support-europe at wri.com in Europe, support-asia at wri.com in
Asia) directly.

I hope this helps.

--Ian

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