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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 12:43:21 -0500
From: markf@POST.queensu.ca
Subject: [*] Re: EPSF AFE translators

Place the  "EPSF (IBMpc to Mac)" file into the same folder as Apple File
Exchange, the next time use start Apple File Exchange this translator will
be available in the "Mac to Mac" menu or the MS-Dos to Mac" menu.

Encapulated PostScript File on the IBMpc come in two formats:
* Plain ASCII files (starting with %!)
* Binary files with a header that describes the EPSF's PostScript commands
and preview image (TIFF or Metafile) section of the file.
This translator will accept both types of file and produce a EPS file on
the Macintosh without the preview image.

You can select the Macintosh file type and creator.  Some applications
allow only EPSF as a file type, some also allow TEXT as type.  Setting the
file type to TEXT you can read the file into a word processor and check if
it is a True EPSF file.  Many IBMpc software do not create true EPSF files.

EPS file should start/end with:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-2.0
%%Creator: Windows PSCRIPT
%%Title: Document2 name
%%BoundingBox: 18 19 593 774
%%DocumentNeededResources: (atend)
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
%%DocumentFonts: (atend)
%%DocumentNeededFonts: (atend)
%%EndComments

....

%%Trailer
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset Win35Dict 3 1
%%DocumentFonts: Times-Roman Times-Italic
%%DocumentNeededResources:
%%DocumentNeededFonts: Times-Roman Times-Italic
%%EOF

NOTE: times listed after: %%DocumentNeededResources and
%%DocumentNeededFonts are possible problems.

If the fonts listed are NOT in the printer then you need to include them in
the EPSF file or download them to the printer.

If the ProcSets listed in %%DocumentNeededResources must be downloaded or
inserted in the file at the %%InsertResource: <xxx> comment location.

The following postscript operators can NOT be used in EPSF files:

banddevice, exitserver, initmatrix, setshared, clear, framedevice, quit,
startjob, cleardictstack, grestoreall, renderbands, copypage, initclip,
setglobal, erasepage, initgraphics, setpagedevice

following operators can be used with care:

nulldevice, sethalftone, setscreen, undefinefont, setgstate, setmatrix,
settransfer

For more information see:

PostScript Language Reference Manual, 2nd, Adobe Systems Inc.,
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.  ISBN 0-201-18127-4

[Archived as /info-mac/util/afe-epsf.hqx; 34K]

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