Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-10-07 Severity: wishlist
* Package name : ps2eps Version : 1.47 Upstream Author : Roland Bless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~bless/ps2eps.html * License : GPL Description : Convert PostScript to EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files ps2eps is a tool to produce Encapsulated PostScript Files (EPS/EPSF) from usual one-paged Postscript documents. It calculates correct Bounding Boxes for those EPS files and filters some special postscript command sequences that can produce erroneous results on printers. EPS files are needed for including (scalable) graphics into TeX (or even Word) documents. Other programs like ps2epsi do not calculate the bounding box always correct (because the values are put on the postscript stack which may get corrupted by bad postscript code) or rounded it off so that clipping the EPS cut off some part of the image. Therefore ps2eps uses a resolution of 144 dpi to get the correct bounding box. There is an experiemental apt-getable repository at: http://people.debian.org/~rafael/ps2eps/ I am a bit concerned about namespace pollution, since this package contains the files: /usr/bin/ps2eps /usr/bin/bbox If there are no objections, I will upload the packages in the site above without changes. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux laboiss0 2.4.19-686 #1 Mon Nov 18 23:59:03 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
