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# Overview pstoedit translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats. # Supported Formats Currently pstoedit can generate the following major formats: Tgif .obj format (for tgif version >= 3) .fig format for xfig pdf - Adobe's Portable Document Format gnuplot format Flattened PostScript (with or without Bezier curves) DXF - CAD exchange format LWO - LightWave 3D RIB - RenderMan RPL - Real3D Java 1 or Java 2 applet Idraw format (in fact a special form of EPS that idraw can read) Tcl/Tk HPGL AI (Adobe Illustrator) (based on ps2ai.ps - not a real pstoedit driver - see notes below and manual) Windows Meta Files (WMF) (Windows only) Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (Windows, but also Linux/Unix if libemf is available) OS/2 meta files (OS/2 only) PIC format for troff/groff MetaPost format for usage with TeX/LaTeX LaTeX2e picture Kontour GNU Metafile (plotutils / libplot) Skencil ( http://www.skencil.org ) Mathematica via ImageMagick to any format supported by ImageMagick SWF CNC G code VTK files for ParaView and similar visualization tools Besides these some further very special formats are supported. See the pstoedit.htm for a complete list of available drivers. The following formats are available as additional plugins on a shareware basis. See http://www.pstoedit.net/plugins/ for more details. (Frame)Maker Intermediate Format (MIF) CGM Format (both binary and textual) SVG - scalable vector format. One candidate of the W3C for a web standard for vector drawings. See http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ for more details. Better Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (supports curves and compound pathes and does more accurate text formatting) (Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista only) RTF (MS Word) (Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista only) Implementing support for other formats should be very easy. The architecture of pstoedit consists of a PostScript frontend which needs to call a PostScript interpreter like Ghostscript and the individual backends which are pugged into a kind of framework. This framework can be used independently from the PostScript frontend from any other program. The framework provides a uniform interface to all different backends. You need a C++ compiler to compile and GhostScript to run pstoedit. pstoedit should run on all Un*x like systems (including cygwin) and has also been ported to OS/2, Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista, and RiscOS. Since version 3.00 it is possible to add new drivers without even recompiling the core program. pstoedit can load additional drivers as plugins. # Download You can download pstoedit: Source tarball: pstoedit-3.50.tar.gz binary for Windows 9x/2K/NT/XP/Vista - If you don't have the following two DLLs (msvcr70.dll and msvcp70.dll) already installed, you need to install them as well - either in the system directory or in the pstoedit directory. You can get a copy here. Under Windows XP and later these libs are usually already installed. additional plugins a version of pstoedit that can be used as graphic import filter for MS-Office 95/97/2K/XP/2007, Paint Shop Pro, or Photoline In case of download problems, visit this page via the alternate URL. pstoedit can also be used from within gsview via the "Edit|Convert to vector" menu. # More Information You get can more information from: The manual, The readme file. The change log pstoedit also cooperates with autotrace. Autotrace can produce a dump file for further processing by pstoedit using the -bo (backend only) option. Autotrace is a program written by a group around Martin Weber and can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace/ # Related Links Some links more or less related to pstoedit can be found here. # Mailing List There is an e-mail list for people that want to be informed about updates and bug-fixes related to pstoedit and importps. Please note: This list is provided via egroups.com which adds a small commercial message to every mail sent to the list. You won't get additional advertisement via this list. Only the one that comes with each message sent explicitly to the list. If you don't like this policy, don't subscribe.
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