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Re: Importing IDL Postscript output into Windows apps [message #5368]

Fri, 01 December 1995 00:00

Richard Simpson
Messages: 1
Registered: December 1995

Junior Member

I too have been spending a lot of time trying to get Wave output into MS Word.
The quite remarkable difficulty of this activity constantly frustrates the
work of my section. I have found a much simpler way on another computer which
I have at home and wonder if anyone knows if it would be possible to adopt
a similar approach on the PC.

At home I have an Acorn Risc PC (a computer made by Acorn Computers of
Cambridge England which runs a propriatory operating system on an ARM610 RISC
processor). I appreciate that Americans will never have heard of this machine,
but that doesn't matter. Acorns have an equivalent of Windows Meta File
format called "Draw files". This is vector file format which has essentially
the same functionality as WMF and can be VERY easily viewed rotated and
scaled in the word processing and DTP packages which run on the machine. Now,
I have obtained from an Internet server a PD package which takes Postscript
and converts it into a Draw file. It is fast and almost never fails and makes
using Wave output in documents generated on the Acorn completely trivial.

Since the user base for Acorn computers is less than 1% of the base for
Windows, surely somebody must have written a PD program which converts
Postscript to WMF? I have looked hard, but have been unable to locate such
a package. If anybody knows of one then I would be keen to obtain a copy.

Points to note:
1) Yes, I have got Ghostscript, but if you convert a Postscript file to a TIFF
with sufficient resolution for publication, then you end up with an
ENORMOUSE file.
2) Yes, I do have a program to convert from Draw to WMF, but it is of very
poor quality and only rarely generates a usefull output.

Clearly, the best solution would be a 'set_plot 'wmf'' command for Wave. But
I wouldn't expect such a thing to appear in the forseable future.

Richard Simpson
Farnborough, Hants, Uk Fax: 01252 392118
rsimpson@ewrcsdra.demon.co.uk

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		Re: Importing IDL Postscript output into Windows apps By: Richard Simpson on Fri, 01 December 1995 00:00
		Re: Importing IDL Postscript output into Windows apps By: hrebhan on Fri, 01 December 1995 00:00
		Re: Importing IDL Postscript output into Windows apps By: Liam Gumley on Thu, 30 November 1995 00:00
		Re: Importing IDL Postscript output into Windows apps By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 29 November 1995 00:00
		Re: Importing IDL Postscript output into Windows apps By: kkobayas on Wed, 29 November 1995 00:00
		Re: Importing IDL Postscript output into Windows apps By: Ian E. Sprod on Wed, 29 November 1995 00:00
		Re: Importing IDL Postscript output into Windows apps By: hrebhan on Tue, 28 November 1995 00:00

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