To use PostScript file in Word, Quark Express, etc
OR to make slide directly from PC application

Three considerations:
• make sure file is Encapsulated PostScript
• make sure file has preview included (not necessary for slides)
• make sure line thickness is set (no hairlines)

Make EPS file

From Win95

• choose Kodak ColorEase printer set up as EPS format (Standard Laserwriter drivers do funny things not appreciated by slidemaker software)

To set up printer:
find "Printers" folder
select PostScript printer you want to use (e.g. Kodak ColorEase)
select "Properties" (right click)
select "Details" and select FILE: for the port:
select "PostScript" and choose Ecapsulated PostScript for format

Problems with slides (e.g., text doesn't show on slides)
• This happens when standard postscript drivers are used (e.g. Apple Laserwriter)
• Try using Kodak ColorEase postscript drivers
• OR ask Jon to open eps files with Adobe Illustrator, then save them again and slide should be OK

• set line thickness to at least .01 in SigmaPlot for slides or for Fujix Prints

From MacIntosh

• should be able to specify "Print to File" during normal printing and the result will be EPS file with preview

From Unix

• edit header to make EPS out of PS file

%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%Title: a.eps
%%Creator: ICM 2.5 software
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792

• May need to insert command to make lines thicker than "hairline" (e.g., contour maps)
2 setlinewidth

Insert Preview

With MacIntosh (seems to require EPS file to start)

• run Transverter Pro
• read in file (don't worry if preview is a bit wrong)
• Export file as EPSF (make sure preview is specified as Mac PICT)
• alternatively, run PS2EPS+

With PC (can work with either PS or EPS file)

• open file with GSVIEW (if installed, may be as easy as double clicking filename)
• choose FILE -> PS to EPS and save (this is intermediate EPS file)
• open the intermediate EPS file (still has no preview)
• choose EDIT -> Add EPS Preview ("TIFF 4" works, "Interchange" doesn't)
• (HIJAAK95 should do the same thing, but seems not to recognize initial EPS files)

Edit Postscript

• Can edit PostScript file by importing into CorelDraw or into Adobe Illustrator (Photoshop not recommended)
• Can convert to TIFF using Transverter and then edit with Photoshop

For further information on PostScript including FAQ's and links to PostScript and GhostScript viewers:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5682/postscript.html

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This page last updated on September 20, 1996.