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Re: Windows PostScript Preview Image [message #17911 is a reply to message #17835] Wed, 17 November 1999 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Mark Hadfield is currently offline  Mark Hadfield
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David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.129b25fdfb87c7cf989967@news.frii.com...
> ...
> There has been some discussion on this newsgroup lately
> of how to produce a decent PostScript preview image, so
> you could import the image into a Word or PowerPoint
> document and see something reasonable. I've written
> an article on this topic that might shed some light on
> the subject, at least for those of you working on Windows
> machines. (Ninety percent of you, if my recent figures from
> Microsoft are any indication. :-)
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/tips/postscript_preview.html
>
> ...
> The first method is IDL's own, using the Preview keyword.
> The second involves using Ghostview, as suggested on this
> newsgroup by Liam Gumley, and the third method uses Adobe
> Acrobat and was suggested to me by Larry Ashim.

For those who prefer a command-line tool, Russell Lang, the author of GsView
has written epstool (see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.html).
Once you sort out the right command-line options, its a lot quicker than
going through the sequence of menu selections required with GsView.

---
Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand

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