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Re: ps2eps.tar.gz in /incoming |
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Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:47:00 +0100 |
Roland Bless writes:
> - I just uploaded the ps2eps-Tool (ps2eps.tar.gz and README.ps2eps)
> in CTAN /incoming of ftp.dante.de. Sorry, but I accidentially
> put README.txt in /incoming and could not delete it.
>
> - I suggest that the archive and README should reside in "support/ps2eps".
>
> - The program is licensed under gpl.
>
> - ps2eps is a tool to produce Encapsulated PostScript Files (EPS/EPSF)
> from usual one-paged Postscript documents. It calculates correct
> Bounding Boxes for those EPS files and filters some special postscript
> command sequences that can produce errorneous results on printers. EPS
> files are needed for including (scalable) graphics into TeX documents. I
> found out that other programs like "ps2epsi" didn't calculate the
> bounding box always correct (because the values are put on the
> postscript stack which may get corrupted by bad postscript code) or
> rounded it off so that clipping the EPS cutted off some part of the
> image. Therefore ps2eps uses a resolution of 144 dpi to get the correct
> bounding box.
> ps2eps needs perl, ghostscript and an ANSI-C compiler if your platform
> is not Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix or Windows 2000/9x/NT (binaries
> included).
Thanks a lot for the upload. As suggested, I installed it in
support/ps2eps
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Sch.ANvpf
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