From: ger@cv.ruu.nl (Ger Timmens)
Subject: Re: Postscript drawing prog
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In <0010580B.vma7o9@diablo.UUCP> diablo.UUCP!cboesel (Charles Boesel) writes:


>In article <1993Apr19.171704.2147@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> (comp.graphics.gnuplot,comp.graphics), rdd@uts.ipp-garching.mpg.de (Reinhard Drube) writes:
>>In article <C5ECnn.7qo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, nish@cv4.chem.purdue.edu (Nishantha I.) writes:
>>|> 	Could somebody let me know of a drawing utility that can be
>>|> used to manipulate postscript files.I am specifically interested in
>>|> drawing lines, boxes and the sort on Postscript contour plots.
>>|> 	I have tried xfig and I am impressed by it's features. However
>>|> it is of no use since I cannot use postscript files as input for the
>>|> programme.Is there a utility that converts postscript to xfig format?
>>|> 	Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>|> 				Nishantha
>Have you checked out Adobe Illustrator? There are a few Unix versions
>for it available, depending on your platform. I know of two Unix versions:
>One for Mach (NeXT) and for Irix (SGI). There may be others, such
>as for Sun SparcStation, but I don't know for sure.

You can include postscript epsi files in xfig (encapsulated postscript
info files). You can't actually edit the postscript file, but you're able
to draw over the postscript file.

There a eps to epsi converter: eps2epsi (perl program),

Succes,
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