Article 125974 of comp.os.vms: Path: nntpd.lkg.dec.com!pa.dec.com!news1.digital.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!julienas!donald.cenaath.cena.dgac.fr!sable!pmoreau From: pmoreau@cenaath.cena.dgac.fr (Patrick MOREAU, CENA Athis, Tel: (1) 69.57.70.40) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Convert postscript to GIF? Date: 29 Jul 95 17:05:58 +0100 Organization: CENA, Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne - FRANCE Lines: 38 Message-ID: <1995Jul29.170558.1@sable> References: <3va7d6$3b2@usenet.pa.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.cenaath.cena.dgac.fr In article <3va7d6$3b2@usenet.pa.dec.com>, gerold.krommer@aui.mts.dec.com (Gerold Krommer) writes: > trull_brian@caemac.msd.ray.com (Brian Trull) wrote: [...] >>The easiest way would be to convert the postscript file to a GIF format. >>It seems to me that this should be possible. Does anyone know of a program >>that will do this, I can't seem to find anything myself. > >>Any advice on solutions to this problem would be appreciated. [...] > The good news is that there is freeware for the PC and DEC Unix ( > dunno about OpenVMS ) called GostScript. I think 3.3 is the latest > version. It can output your PS to TIF. From there are a gazillion of > converters to GIF. For a customer I just tried it yesterday and it > works nicely. You have another way to convert from PS to GIF using GS itself (assuming you have build it with GIF support (GIF was available with GS 3.12 but is no longer available with GS 3.33): $ define GS_DEVICE "gif8" $ gs "-r100" "-sOutputFile=junk.gif" manifest.ps The "-r100" switch gives you a 100 dpi resolution, OK for displaying onto a screen. (you can choose another value, 300 dpi if you want a high resolution gif file). Best Regards, Patrick -- =============================================================================== pmoreau@cena.dgac.fr ______ ___ _ (Patrick MOREAU) PSI%191190315::PMOREAU (France) / / / / /| /| CENA/Athis-Mons FRANCE / /___/ / / | / | __ __ __ __ BP 205 / / / / |/ | | | |__| |__ |__| | | 94542 ORLY AEROGARE CEDEX / / :: / / | |__| | \ |__ | | |__| ===============================================================================