[OS X TeX] OT: looking for a public-domain EPS file editor

[William Adams]

On Apr 25, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> On other matters, it appears Cenon can open EPS successfully when  
> you replace the recent GhostScript 8.56 from i-Installer by the old  
> GhostScript 6.52 from the Cenon site. However, Cenon seems to have  
> problems with embedded fonts, and the EPS code it produces seems  
> faulty anyway (mirrored elements, erroneous bounding box).

Is that how it appears in Cenon after opening it? Or how it exports  
out of Cenon?

I was able to open the .eps in Cenon fine (using a default install)  
by distilling the .eps to a .pdf, opening the .pdf in Adobe  
Illustrator 10 (didn't want to re-boot to the partition where CS2  
works) and then down-saving as a v5 file. Exporting as a .eps from  
Cenon seemed to work fine as well.

Opening the distilled .pdf in Cenon seemed to work fine as well.

Given that every so often one can make a .eps file in Illustrator  
which will choke a PS RIP, or fail to distill in Adobe Acrobat  
Distiller, I wouldn't criticize other programs for not being able to  
handle its PS code.

BTW you should change the hyphens in the negative series to minus  
symbols.

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications



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