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Re: IDL's EPS thumbnail image [message #4823 is a reply to message #4752]

Tue, 08 August 1995 00:00

gurman
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In article <403eto$k12@zephyr.grace.cri.nz>, Mark Hadfield
<hadfield@storm.greta.cri.nz> wrote:

> soc@festival.ed.ac.uk (Stephen O'Connell) wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use EPS files quite regularly, and the more files I generate, the more
>> annoyed I become. This is because the thumbnail image contained in the
>> .eps file is not supported by any of the packages I use - in particular
>> the windows eps filter which is used for word and my dvi viewer.
>>
>
> For Word for Windows you need a preview image in TIFF or WMF (Windows
> metafile format) format. Preview images in either format can be added by
> GSView (ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/rjl). This program is a Windows
> front-end to the Ghostscript Postscript interpreter
> (ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin).
>
> WMF previews support colour, but there are various problems, eg if they are
> too large the Word PS filter crashes! So I use TIFF 4.

Wow! A Microsoft product for Windows crashing.... and I thought that
was only for the MS products for the Mac.

Would RSI care to comment on why they can't implement an EPSF preview
that would allow one to choose the preview format (TIFF, WMF, PICT,
scaled-down EPS, &c.) or at least the target platform? Ot maybe they
can....

Inquiring minds want to know....

Joe Gurman

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		IDL's EPS thumbnail image By: soc on Wed, 02 August 1995 00:00
		Re: IDL's EPS thumbnail image By: gurman on Tue, 08 August 1995 00:00
		Re: IDL's EPS thumbnail image By: Mark Hadfield on Sun, 06 August 1995 00:00
		Re: IDL's EPS thumbnail image By: Troy Klein on Thu, 03 August 1995 00:00
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