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PRN2PS(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						 PRN2PS(1)

NAME

       prn2ps - PostScript Conversion Utility

PURPOSE

       prn2ps converts Windows PostScript to Unix PostScript. The input to this program is typically generated by printing to a PostScript printer
       connected to the FILE: logical device. The output can be converted to Encapsulated PostScript using GhostScript's p2epsi program.

USAGE

	usage  : prn2ps [-h[help]] [-o[out_ext]]
		[-l[log_ext]] [-O[out_dir]] prn_file ...
       purpose: convert Windows PostScript to Unix PostScript
       version: 2.000	 (SDF 2.001)

       The options are:

	Option	     Description
	-h	     display help on options
	-o	     output file extension
	-l	     log file extension
	-O	     output to input file's (or explicit) directory

DESCRIPTION

       The -h option provides help. If it is specified without a parameter, a brief description of each option is displayed. To display the
       attributes for an option, specify the option letter as a parameter.

       By default, generated output goes to standard output. To direct output to a file per input file, use the -o option to specify an extension
       for output files. If the -o option is specified without a parameter, an extension of out is assumed.

       Likewise, error messages go to standard error by default. Use the -l option to create a log file per input file. If the -l option is
       specified without a parameter, an extension of log is assumed.

       By default, generated output and log files are created in the current directory. Use the -O option to specify an explicit output directory.
       If the -O option is specified without a parameter, the input file's directory is used.

       For each input file, the output is generated by:

       o   deleting the PageSize information

       o   deleting the control-D at the end of the file.

EXAMPLES

       To generate an Encapsulated PostScript file from Windows PostScript:

	 prn2ps -ops myfig.prn
	 ps2epsi myfig.ps

LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       If ps2epsi doesn't like the output, you may need to use another printer driver to generate the input. On Windows NT 4.0, the Canon PS-IPU
       Color Laser Copier v52.3 driver works most of the time.

perl v5.12.4							    2011-11-09								 PRN2PS(1)

PS2EPSI(1)							 Ghostscript Tools							PS2EPSI(1)

NAME

       ps2epsi - generate conforming Encapsulated PostScript

SYNOPSIS

       ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epsi ] (Unix)
       ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epi ] (DOS)

DESCRIPTION

       ps2epsi	uses  gs(1)  to  process a PostScript(tm) file and generate as output a new file which conforms to Adobe's Encapsulated PostScript
       Interchange (EPSI) format.  EPSI is a special form of encapsulated PostScript (EPS) which adds to the beginning of the file in the form	of
       PostScript  comments  a bitmapped version of the final displayed page.  Programs which understand EPSI (usually word processors or DTP pro-
       grams) can use this bitmap to give a preview version on screen of the PostScript.  The displayed quality is often not very good (e.g.,  low
       resolution, no colours), but the final printed version uses the real PostScript, and thus has the normal PostScript quality.

USAGE

       On Unix systems invoke ps2epsi like this:

	    ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epsi ]

       where "infile.ps" is the input file and "outfile.epsi" is the resulting EPSI file.  If the output filename is omitted, it is generated from
       the input filename.  When a standard extension (".ps", ".cps", ".eps" or ".epsf") is  used,  it	is  replaced  with  the  output  extension
       ".epsi".  On DOS systems the command is:

	    ps2epsi infile.ps outfile.epi

       where "infile.ps" is the original PostScript file, and "outfile.epi" is the name of the output file.

LIMITATIONS

       Not every PostScript file can be encapsulated successfully, because there are restrictions on what PostScript constructs a correct encapsu-
       lated file may contain.	ps2epsi does a little extra work to try to help encapsulation, and it automatically calculates	the  bounding  box
       required  for  all  encapsulated  PostScript  files, so most of the time it does a pretty good job. There are certain to be cases, however,
       where the encapsulation does not work because of the content of the original PostScript file.

COMPATIBILITY

       The Framemaker DTP system is one application which understands EPSI files, and ps2epsi has been tested on a number of  PostScript  diagrams
       from  a	variety  of  sources, using Framemaker 3.0 on a Sun workstation.  Framemaker on other platforms should be able to use these files,
       although I have not been able to test this.

FILES

       ps2epsi	     Unix shell script
       ps2epsi.bat   DOS batch file
       ps2epsi.ps    the Ghostscript program which does the work

SEE ALSO

       gs (1)

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.07.  However, the content may be obsolete, or inconsistent with ps2epsi.txt.

AUTHOR

       George Cameron

9.07								 12 February 2013							PS2EPSI(1)