netbsd-help: Re: PS to EPSI

Subject: Re: PS to EPSI
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/19/2000 08:33:09

	Can you run the same test on one of their FreeBSD boxes to confirm
	it is stage 3 and everything else is identical - no extra
	arguments to ps2epsi or different versions of Word?
 David/absolute
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On 2000年9月18日, Steven Grunza wrote:
> This is possibly not the correct place to ask this question but our IT
> guys here use FreeBSD and it just works:
> 
> 
> I would like to use NetBSD-i386 to convert a PostScript document to an
> Encapsulated PostScript document with an embedded image. The EPS file
> would then be used in Word97. On screen it would have a visible
> bit-map, on the printer it would be a PostScript output. Since the
> image is scaled, it really needs to be PostScript when printed.
> 
> I've tried:
> 
> 1) using the Print to Disk option with a standard Windows Postscript
> driver to create the original file, moved it to where my NetBSD machine
> can get to it, and called it portrait.ps.
> 
> 2) gs portrait.ps
> :displays the file without problems.
> 
> 3) ps2epsi portrait.ps portrait.eps
> :doesn't report any errors
> 
> I then move the file back to where Windows can grab it, import it into
> Word97, and get the "No embedded image" comment in the on-screen
> version. It does print ok to the Postscript printer.
> 
> Is this a problem with Word or with my setup of Ghostscript? The
> FreeBSD guys report it to "just work" with their setup and don't want to
> figure out what's wrong with my setup.
> 
> I installed ghostscript from /usr/pkgsrc/print/ghostscript by doing a
> "make" followed by a "make install". The pkg_info command reports
> (among other things):
> 
> ghostscript-5.50 Aladdin Postscript interpreter
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how to make this work?