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EPS vs. PS [message #40675]

Tue, 24 August 2004 22:11

Michael Wallace
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Registered: December 2003

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This isn't really an IDL question, but I figured that some of you might
have dabbled more in image file formats that I have. I have some object
graphics and created an EPS file (which looks really nice, BTW). I
couldn't find any way to save the object graphics as normal PS. Despite
David's notes on this
(http://www.dfanning.com/ographics_tips/object_eps.html), I couldn't
even get the printer thing to work.

It was then that I had what I thought was a brilliant idea. I used
ImageMagick to convert the EPS to a PS. I printed out both files. The
EPS file looked awesome -- everything nice and smooth and crisp. The
printout of the PS file had some fuzziness about it. It appeared that
the conversion was done by rastorizing the EPS and saving that as PS.
The rastorization would have produced the fuzziness I saw. So, does
anyone know how to convert EPS to PS and preserve the vector-ness of the
EPS? Maybe there's an option of ImageMagick I don't know about yet or
maybe even something in IDL itself? Ideas? Any PS gurus out there?

-Mike

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		EPS vs. PS By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 24 August 2004 22:11
		Re: EPS vs. PS By: Mark Hadfield on Sun, 29 August 2004 15:11
		Re: EPS vs. PS By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 07 September 2004 06:15
		Re: EPS vs. PS By: R.Bauer on Thu, 26 August 2004 03:48

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