1PS2EPSI(1)                     Ghostscript Tools                    PS2EPSI(1)
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NAME

6       ps2epsi - generate conforming Encapsulated PostScript
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SYNOPSIS

9       ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epsi ] (Unix)
10       ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epi ] (DOS)
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DESCRIPTION

13       ps2epsi  uses  gs(1)  to  process a PostScript(tm) file and generate as
14       output a new file which conforms to Adobe's Encapsulated PostScript In‐
15       terchange  (EPSI) format.  EPSI is a special form of encapsulated Post‐
16       Script (EPS) which adds to the beginning of the file  in  the  form  of
17       PostScript  comments  a  bitmapped version of the final displayed page.
18       Programs which understand EPSI (usually word  processors  or  DTP  pro‐
19       grams)  can  use this bitmap to give a preview version on screen of the
20       PostScript.  The displayed quality is often not very  good  (e.g.,  low
21       resolution,  no  colours),  but the final printed version uses the real
22       PostScript, and thus has the normal PostScript quality.
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USAGE

25       On Unix systems invoke ps2epsi like this:
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29       where "infile.ps" is the input file and "outfile.epsi" is the resulting
30       EPSI file.  If the output filename is omitted, it is generated from the
31       input filename.  When a standard extension (".ps",  ".cps",  ".eps"  or
32       ".epsf") is used, it is replaced with the output extension ".epsi".  On
33       DOS systems the command is:
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37       where "infile.ps" is the original PostScript file, and "outfile.epi" is
38       the name of the output file.
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LIMITATIONS

41       Not  every  PostScript  file  can be encapsulated successfully, because
42       there are restrictions on what PostScript constructs a correct encapsu‐
43       lated  file  may  contain.   ps2epsi does a little extra work to try to
44       help encapsulation, and it automatically calculates  the  bounding  box
45       required  for all encapsulated PostScript files, so most of the time it
46       does a pretty good job. There are certain to be cases,  however,  where
47       the  encapsulation does not work because of the content of the original
48       PostScript file.
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COMPATIBILITY

51       The Framemaker DTP system is one  application  which  understands  EPSI
52       files,  and  ps2epsi has been tested on a number of PostScript diagrams
53       from a variety of sources, using Framemaker 3.0 on a  Sun  workstation.
54       Framemaker  on  other  platforms should be able to use these files, al‐
55       though I have not been able to test this.
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FILES

58       ps2epsi       Unix shell script
59       ps2epsi.bat   DOS batch file
60       ps2epsi.ps    the Ghostscript program which does the work
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SEE ALSO

63       gs (1)
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VERSION

66       This document was last revised for Ghostscript  version  9.55.0.   How‐
67       ever, the content may be obsolete, or inconsistent with ps2epsi.txt.
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AUTHOR

70       George Cameron
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