Top Document: SGI apps Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -14- How can I preview PostScript? Next Document: -16- How can I deal with PDF (Portable Document Format) files? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Ivan Bach <ib@sgi.com> collected some testimonials from a number of SGIers: - Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw can edit PS files of type AI (a simplified version of PS that facilitates editing). - Transverter (from TechPool, 212-291-1922) can convert some general PostScript files to AI PostScript. It also does other conversions, e.g. to TIFF. - If you have DPS and the DPS developer's kit you can do this quite well with xfig. Check out the version in ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/R5contrib-fixes/xfig-patches/. - The InterViews tool `idraw' allows manipulation of EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files, and has a `mac-type' interface. - Island Draw 3.0 has an option to import Postscript, and it seems to accept arbitrary Postscript. I have fed it single page Postcript files from Illustrator, Corel, Ventura, Designer, Eroff, and hand-coded files, and it made Island Draw objects out of them. The file initially opens as one grouped object, but if you ungroup, you get editable objects. I was quite impressed. I don't doubt there are ways to fool the interpreter, but it works for output from drawing and publishing packages, which is what I need it for. - Jack Howarth <howarth@nitro.med.uth.tmc.edu> adds: ps2ai.ps converts Postscript to AI Postscript. It requires ghostscript (see above). aimaker is a front end to ps2ai.ps. Both programs can be found in ftp://toby.princeton.edu/pub/olszewsk/. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI apps Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -14- How can I preview PostScript? Next Document: -16- How can I deal with PDF (Portable Document Format) files? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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