| Re: idl / psutils [message #28058 is a reply to message #27978] |
Thu, 15 November 2001 10:15   |
R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998
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"Steve Smith" wrote:
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> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:35:59 +0100, Reimar Bauer <r.bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> please can someone else do a small test to convert
>> an idl ps file with ps2epsi into an eps which was created by IDL5.5.
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>> (psutils 1.7)
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>>> ps2epsi idl.ps idl.eps
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>> If I do so I got an error which I don't understand.
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>> sed: -e expression #2, char 15: Extra characters after command
>>
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> Sorry, I can't try it, I'm still waiting for our legal department to comment
> on our GIF license before upgrading to IDL 5.5 :^) ! But, ps2epsi is just a
> script which calls ghostscript, there is only one line in it that uses sed:
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> sed -e '/^%%BeginPreview:/,/%%EndPreview$/d' -e '/^%!PS-Adobe/d'\
> -e '/^%%[A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*$/d' -e '/^%%[A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*: /d'
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> It sounds like expression #2 is after the second -e, and maybe your sed
> doesn't like the newline ( the \ ), so you could try to put all the
> commands in the ps2epsi script on one line?
Dear Steve,
exactly this was the solution. But on both machines is the same sed.
The difference is in the ghostscript. So I have not tried this before.
Thanks
Reimar
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> sed is a stream editing tool, you can see that it's just looking at the
> postscript prolouge (think that's what it's called). Unfortunately, sed
> commands look so much like postscript commands, I can't guess off hand
> what it's actually doing here, so I can't tell you what's happening. Logan
> may laud me for tinkering till I figured it out, but it's a small consolation
> for enduring disciplinary action for spending too much time on it! Hopefully
> there's something here you didn't know already :^), I would just open the
> ps file and see what it looks like, and compare with your old ps output
> (from prior version of IDL). You could also check the faq at the sed web
> site mentioned in the sed man pages.
>
> --
> Steve S.
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> steve@NOSPAMmailaps.org
> remove NOSPAM before replying
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Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
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