[plug] Postscript to PDF conversion

[Kevin Shackleton]

Probably no use to anyone but one of the easiest ways to get a civilian-usable
picture of a design in Microstation is to print to a postscript printer
(creates a file) and do a ps2pdf on that.  If you fork out a few hundred $ you
can get Acrobat in which Distiller does the same job in Windows.

K.

Tim Bowden wrote:

> 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