| ps export/import [message #23110] |
Thu, 04 January 2001 13:51  |
Martin Schultz
Messages: 515
Registered: August 1997
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Hi all,
after struggling with this for ages and a whole day, I finally
figured out a way to import ps files generated with IDL into word
processing software such as StarOffice or Word. The trouble came
because
(a) I usually don't generate postscript with /ENCAPSULATE in IDL, so
my files are missing the EPSF-3.0 label in the first line
(b) I generate a lot of landscape plots which come out rotated in IDL
ps.
as a brave guy (but only after browsing through newsgroup archives
;-), I decided it should be possible to delete the rotate statement in
the ps file without destroying the file. Turns out one has to delete a
few more things as well: all bounding boxes, the page orientation and
a translate statement. If, thereafter, the honored user sends the
crippled file through ps2epsi (viva Unix ;-) she will have a perfect
encapsulated file including a preview image.
Attached is a small shell script which automates this process:
psfix filename [outfilename]
If outfilename is not given it will be the basefilename of filename +
'.eps'
Good night,
Martin
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#!/bin/sh
#
# shell script to fix postscript files that were generated in IDL
# with landscape orientation to create epsi files that can be
# imported into StarOffice
#
# Author: Martin Schultz, MPI, 04 Jan 2001
# The output file will be <filename>.eps unless otherwise specified
# check arguments
if [ .$1. == .. ] ; then
echo Usage: psfix inputfile [outputfile]
exit
else
infile=$1
fi
echo Converting $infile
if [ ! -s $infile ] ; then
echo Input file $infile not found!
exit
fi
if [ .$2. == .. ] ; then
outfile=`basename $infile .ps`.eps
else
outfile=$2
fi
echo generating EPS file $outfile
# remove bounding box and orientation statements
sed 's/%%BoundingBox:.*//' $infile > tmp___001.ps
sed 's/%%PageOrientation: Landscape//' tmp___001.ps > tmp___002.ps
rm -f tmp___001.ps
sed 's/%%PageBoundingBox:.*//' tmp___002.ps > tmp___003.ps
rm -f tmp___002.ps
# remove rotate and translate statements
sed 's/[0-9 ]*translate//' tmp___003.ps > tmp___004.ps
rm -f tmp___003.ps
sed 's/[0-9 ]*rotate//' tmp___004.ps > tmp___005.ps
rm -f tmp___004.ps
# convert to epsi
ps2epsi tmp___005.ps
rm -f tmp___005.ps
# rename
mv tmp___005.epsi $outfile
rm -f tmp___005.epsi
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