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- From: meroth@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ansgar Meroth)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,alt.binaries.pictures.utilities,alt.binaries.pictures.d
- Subject: Re: PS to Gif?
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 17:22:41 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- References: <Dec.11.13.52.38.1992.3497@gnumath.rutgers.edu> <exuptr.360.724105063@exu.ericsson.se>
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- |> In article <Dec.11.13.52.38.1992.3497@gnumath.rutgers.edu> lukeh@gnumath.rutgers.edu (Luke Higgins) writes:
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- |> >Is there any way to convert from a PS file to a gif format. I have some
- |> >pictures that are in PS and I want to edit them and the only editor
- |> >that I have is one that edits gif files. I know very little about
- |> >PostScript and am really a computer novice when it comes to a lot of
- |> >things.
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- the easiest way is to run ghostscript ( a public domain ps-viewer ) on
- a high res. workstation screen and create a x-window-dump of it -
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- this dump is convertable into almost every format (e.g. with the
- pbmplus library programs )
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- pbmplus is public domain, too.
-
- ciao
- Ansgar
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