[Groff] Fw: Re: ps2eps.tar.gz in /incoming

[Werner LEMBERG]

There were some request about such a tool, so I'm forwarding this
announcement.


    Werner

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> Re: ps2eps.tar.gz in /incoming
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> Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:47:00 +0100
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> Roland Bless writes:
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>  > - I just uploaded the ps2eps-Tool (ps2eps.tar.gz and README.ps2eps)
>  >   in CTAN /incoming of ftp.dante.de. Sorry, but I accidentially
>  >   put README.txt in /incoming and could not delete it.
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>  > - I suggest that the archive and README should reside in "support/ps2eps".
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>  > - The program is licensed under gpl.
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>  > - ps2eps is a tool to produce Encapsulated PostScript Files (EPS/EPSF)
>  >   from usual one-paged Postscript documents. It calculates correct
>  >   Bounding Boxes for those EPS files and filters some special postscript
>  >   command sequences that can produce errorneous results on printers. EPS
>  >   files are needed for including (scalable) graphics into TeX documents. I
>  >   found out that other programs like "ps2epsi" didn't calculate the
>  >   bounding box always correct (because the values are put on the
>  >   postscript stack which may get corrupted by bad postscript code) or
>  >   rounded it off so that clipping the EPS cutted off some part of the
>  >   image. Therefore ps2eps uses a resolution of 144 dpi to get the correct
>  >   bounding box.
>  >   ps2eps needs perl, ghostscript and an ANSI-C compiler if your platform
>  >   is not Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix or Windows 2000/9x/NT (binaries
>  >   included).
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> Thanks a lot for the upload. As suggested, I installed it in
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>   support/ps2eps
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> For the CTAN Team
>   Rainer Sch.ANvpf
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