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diff --git a/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/ps2epsi.1 b/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/ps2epsi.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4911c9de --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/ps2epsi.1 @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +.TH PS2EPSI 1 "01 November 2023" 10.02.1 "Ghostscript Tools" \" -*- nroff -*- +.SH NAME +ps2epsi \- generate conforming Encapsulated PostScript +.SH SYNOPSIS +\fBps2epsi\fR \fIinfile.ps\fR [ \fIoutfile.epsi\fR ] \fB(Unix)\fR +.br +\fBps2epsi\fR \fIinfile.ps\fR [ \fIoutfile.epi\fR ] \fB(DOS)\fR +.SH DESCRIPTION +\fBps2epsi\fR uses \fBgs\fR(1) to process a \fBPostScript\fR(tm) file and +generate as output a new file which conforms to Adobe's \fBEncapsulated +PostScript Interchange\fR (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 +programs) 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. +.SH USAGE +On Unix systems invoke \fBps2epsi\fR like this: +.PP +.br + \fBps2epsi\fR \fIinfile.ps\fR [ \fIoutfile.epsi\fR ] +.PP +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: +.PP +.br + \fBps2epsi\fR \fIinfile.ps outfile.epi\fR +.PP +where "infile.ps" is the original PostScript file, and "outfile.epi" +is the name of the output file. +.SH LIMITATIONS +Not every PostScript file can be encapsulated successfully, because there +are restrictions on what PostScript constructs a correct encapsulated file +may contain. \fBps2epsi\fR 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. +.SH COMPATIBILITY +The \fBFramemaker\fR DTP system is one application which understands EPSI +files, and \fBps2epsi\fR 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. +.SH FILES +.TS +tab(>); +l l. +ps2epsi>Unix shell script +ps2epsi.bat>DOS batch file +ps2epsi.ps>the Ghostscript program which does the work +.TE +.fi +.SH SEE ALSO +gs (1) +.SH VERSION +This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 10.02.1. +However, the content may be obsolete, or inconsistent with ps2epsi.txt. +.SH AUTHOR +George Cameron |