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- From: terjepe@login.eunet.no (Terje Pedersen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: pstoedit (xfig)
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 20:17:37 GMT
- Organization: EUnet Norway
- Message-ID: <1601.6589T1237T1210@login.eunet.no>
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- Short: pstoedit - a program to convert postscript to xfig files.
- Uploader: terjepe@login.eunet.no
- Author: Wolfgang Glunz / Terje Pedersen(Amiga 'port')
- Type: gfx/edit
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
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- Hi!
-
- I accidentally read some of the documentation that comes with xfig (..) and found
- that a program to convert postscript files to xfig files would be worth having.
- The program pstoedit does just that along with converting it to a couple of other formats
- that probably isn't too useful on the amiga at the moment (tgif and mif format).
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- It has been compiled with gcc which means you have to have ixemul library installed.
- It also uses ghostscript, so you'll also need that. And finally the script is written
- to use the unix sh command. If you haven't got these I guess you'll have to get them!
- I decided against adding them to the archive as it would double the size of it.
- They are all available on aminet, so they aren't that far away.
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- If you have all the programs needed you can write:
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- sh pstoedit -f xfig tiger.ps
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- or some other postscript file. Since there aren't any amiga version of the unix ed
- editor, you have to edit the resulting fig file by removing the duplicate header:
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- #FIG 3.1
- Portrait
- Flush Left
- Inches
- 1200 2
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- Other than that it actually seems to work!
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- To edit the resulting file you'll want to get the latest version of my port
- of xfig (xfig9c.lha) or eh..um..the AmiWin version of xfig..
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- Currently it is only available on my homepage: http://login.eunet.no/~terjepe
- so those who want to test it out and maybe provide some feedback on any
- problems that might occur, please feel free to do so!
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- TP
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