MkLinux Installation Notes(English)

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Pstoedit: Postscript Converter to Various Graphics Formats

Japanese page is here.

News

Oct 28, 1998: (pstoedit-2.60-2a). Rebuilt with an unofficial and temporary patch to make it work with ghostscript-5.50jp: somehow ghostscript-5.50 does not allow systemdict modifications. The patch works around this problem, giving up PDF support. It works for PS and I think it's much better than nothing.
May 15, 1998: (pstoedit-2.41-1a,pstoedit-2.60-1a).

Files

This directory contains pstoedit and related files:

        README.html               : this file
        old                       : older version
        SOURCES                   : patches
        SPECS                     : SPEC files
        pstoedit-2.60-2a.ppc.rpm  : binary RPM 
        pstoedit-2.60-2a.src.rpm  : source RPM

Origin

The original source file has been retrieved from

ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/pstoedit/pstoedit.html

I have prepared an unofficial patch: pstoedit.2.60-gs5.patch to work around a problem with ghostscript-5.50. The package building procedure is given in the SPEC files: pstoedit.spec.

Installation Instructions

You need to preinstall "ghostscript" to use "pstoedit".

# rpm -Uvh pstoedit-2.60-2a.ppc.rpm

Usage

In writing transparencies, it often becomes necessary to include some PS figure. It's highly desirable that the included file be editable. Pstoedit allows you to do it. You can translate PS to xfig, tgif, gnuplot, ... etc. so that you can do, for instance:

$ pstoedit -f fig foo.ps foo.fig

$ xfig foo.fig

$ pstoedit -f tgif foo.ps foo.obj

$ tgif foo.obj

$ pstoedit -f idraw foo.ps foo.idraw

$ drawtool foo.idraw

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