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- From: heller@lisboa (Helmut Heller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.graphics
- Subject: color eps => TIFF with high resolution??
- Keywords: eps, color, TIFF, PICT, file formats, image conversion
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- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:10:57 GMT
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- Reply-To: heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
- Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Hello all,
-
- I need help in converting color eps files to TIFF *with high resolution*, not just
- with 72dpi screen resolution.
-
- Let me explain my problem in more detail: we can use a slide recorder (4000 lines
- resolution), which is unfortunately connected to a Mac IIfx. The only format it
- accepts is Mac PICT format. When I compose my presentation slide on the NeXT, all I
- end up with is a nice color eps file (I use Adobe3, with imported eps files from
- other machines [those files may contain pixel graphic from screen dumps], to compose
- the graphic part, then I use LaTeX to compose the page [with text and graphic],
- dvips makes a ps file out of the one page [even with the -E option it most often not
- able to produce eps, only ps], then I place this in a new Adobe file and give it an
- invisible surrounding box and save it as eps with all placements included).
-
- Now I have a high res (I can choose a high custom resolution in dvips) color eps
- file. My problem is: I could not find an app which could transform this into a *high
- res* PICT file. Well, once I would have a high res TIFF file I would know how to
- convert that to high res PICT, but all the apps I tested (Scene, ImageViewer, Icon,
- Appsoft, Draw) that can convert to TIFF save the TIFF file with only 72dpi,
- presumably the screen resolution. And this is just not enough for the slide
- recorder. Also, the TeX test is very hard to read as parts of the characters are
- simply missing (e.g. the horizontal bar of a capital H).
-
- I also looked into pbmplus, the utha raster toolkit, and the SDSC image conversion
- utilities but none could READ eps, only write it! I also looked into comp.graphics
- but didn't find anything in the FAQ lists.
-
- Here my question: is eps a one way road? Once eps, eps for ever? Everything on the
- NeXt is geared towards eps, but is there no way to convert it to something else
- *without loosing resolution* so that one could use output media available on other
- computers?
-
- Please reply by e-mail or follow-up to comp.sys.next.misc
-
- Thanks a lot,
- --
- Servus, Helmut (W9/DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail preferred________________
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- Phone: (217)244-6914 -------------------------------------------------
- Helmut Heller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute
- Theoretical Biophysics Group, Room 3143, MC 251
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