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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 gen-
     erate  as output a new file which conforms to Adobe's Encap-
     sulated 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 encapsulated 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  under-
     stands  EPSI  files, and ps2epsi has been tested on a number



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Ghostscript Tools                                      PS2EPSI(1)



     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
     tab(>); l  l.   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 8.64.
     However,  the  content may be obsolete, or inconsistent with
     ps2epsi.txt.

AUTHOR
     George Cameron



































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