Re: Re: Importing EPS
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- Subject: [mg29352] Re: [mg29140] Re: Importing EPS
- From: "Michael" <michael at science.edu>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 02:27:28 -0400 (EDT)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Glunz" <Wolfgang.Glunz at icn.siemens.de> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg29352] [mg29140] Re: Importing EPS > > > Jens-Peer Kuska wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > the PostScript import is *very* simple and will not work with > > a complicated image. The best solution seems to write a Mathematica > > backend for pstoedit. The power of ghostscript may be better > > The next version of pstoedit will include a backend towards > Mathematica contributed by Manfred Thole <manfred at thole.org> > > But - if Mathematica can already process simple PostScript, > you could try to run your original Postscript through > pstoedit -f ps > to get a much simpler PostScript which maybe Mathematica > is able to read directly. > > Wolfgang > > > > -- > Wolfgang Glunz > > I do not see "pstoedit" in the Mathematica directory. There are a couple of executables which appear to be related to PostScript somehow (makepsres.exe, psrender.exe) but I cannot find any documentation on them, so I assume that they are called from Mathematica somewhere. Is pstoedit a *nix utility? I am running Mathematica under Windows ME [bleah ;)]. The test EPS that I generated was not terrible complex, by the way. It was something along the lines of a few boxes with text in them. Michael