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| Re: ImageMagick and Landscape Encapsulated PostScript Files [message #77376 is a reply to message #77370] |
Fri, 26 August 2011 05:24  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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David Fanning writes:
> It appears to be because ImageMagick cannot deal with
> encapsulated PostScript files in landscape mode.
I have now learned that ImageMagick is actually using
GhostScript to deal with PostScript file conversion
to raster formats. So, I downloaded the very latest
version of GhostScript and I have confirmed that,
indeed, GhostScript has no problem converting
PostScript landscape files to raster format IF
the PostScript file is NOT encapsulated. If it is,
the raster file is completely screwed.
This is the reason I was forcing encapsulated
PostScript files to use Portrait mode in some
of my programs. Of course, there are reasons
why you might want to have encapsulated
PostScript files in landscape mode besides
wanting to convert them to raster formats,
so I am going to have to come up with some
way of dealing with this possibility. I guess
I'll have to issue a warning, and let the user
make a choice about what to do.
Anyway, stay tuned for program updates. :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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