Subject: Re: PS to EPSI
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/19/2000 13:43:04
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:07:21PM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote:
> This is possibly not the correct place to ask this question but our IT
> guys here use FreeBSD and it just works:
> 
> 
> I would like to use NetBSD-i386 to convert a PostScript document to an
> Encapsulated PostScript document with an embedded image.  The EPS file
> would then be used in Word97.  On screen it would have a visible
> bit-map, on the printer it would be a PostScript output.  Since the
> image is scaled, it really needs to be PostScript when printed.
> 
> I've tried:
> 
> 1)  using the Print to Disk option with a standard Windows Postscript
> driver to create the original file, moved it to where my NetBSD machine
> can get to it, and called it portrait.ps.

Does portrait.ps really contain "an embedded image"? My guess is that it
would only contain the postscript necessary for the printer to print it,
not an extra bitmap for the benefit of MS Word.. As to how to really create
said postscript+embedded image, sadly I don't know..

Cheers,

Patrick