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PS2EPSI(1) 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 generate as output a new file
which conforms to Adobe's Encapsulated 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 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.
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 bound-
ing 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 understands EPSI files, and ps2epsi 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.
FILES
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 9.25. However, the content may be
obsolete, or inconsistent with ps2epsi.txt.
AUTHOR
George Cameron
9.25 13 September 2018 PS2EPSI(1)
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