[plug] Postscript to PDF conversion

[Tim Bowden]

Andrew Francis wrote:
> 
> <snips appropriately>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Bernard wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:36:28PM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> > > can produce encapsulated (??) postscript files from a dwf file.  If
> >
> > is a tool called epstopdf from the tetex-bin debian package which also
> > seems to run Ghostscript to do it's dirty work.
> >
> > An alternative might be just to open the eps in xfig and save it as
> > straight postscript.
> 
> I recall that an EPS file is basically just a postscript file, with an
> encapsulated bitmap that shows what the postscript is meant to look
> like. Idea being that the bitmap could be used for, say, thumbnails
> or in places that can't do postscript.

this fits.  Autocad has an option to create a thumbnail view (tiff & a
few other options) in the postscript export dialog.  It is quite
possible that an eps file created in autocad without any thumbnail view
is really just a ps file.  Either way, I suspect ghostscript will handle
it no problem.  I have seen a brief mention of eps in one of the gs man
files but it did not give any details.

Tim