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Re: ps export/import [message #23107]

Thu, 04 January 2001 14:24

Andy Loughe
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Registered: November 1995

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Martin Schultz wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> after struggling with this for ages and a whole day, I finally
> figured out a way to import ps files generated with IDL into word
> processing software such as StarOffice or Word. The trouble came
> because
> (a) I usually don't generate postscript with /ENCAPSULATE in IDL, so
> my files are missing the EPSF-3.0 label in the first line
> (b) I generate a lot of landscape plots which come out rotated in IDL
> ps.

We use a utility called ps2epsi... works great!
On our system it appears to be packaged with ghostscript:
/usr/local/apps/ghostscript/bin/ps2epsi

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