SO 7: importing postscript

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:52:23 -0500 Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> Well, I do this same sort of thing with convert. (It's part of the
> imagemagick package.)
> convert file.ps file.jpg and then import into SO. Works fine and can be
> scripted. But, I would really like to know why these eps files look fine
> in gv but so bad in SO.
> 
> Joel
> 
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:18:15PM +0100, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> > Joel Hammer wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > gs is used by ps2epsi. Is there a way to tweak gs to make things look
> > > better when imported into SO ?
> > 
> > As I've said in another thread (and keep saying), my all time favourite 
> > in handling ps/pdf stuff is GSview 
> > (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/), a frontend to gs.
> > You may open your.ps in GSview, go to file|convert and get access to a 
> > variety of output devices, e. g. 'jpeggray' which outputs your.jpg in 
> > your resulution of choice, and this you may import into OO. It all takes 
> >   two or three mouse clicks and a few seconds.

I thought to try this myself, but I'm stumped.  How are you importing a .ps file
under OO?  I only get it to open as the actual PS code (text version).

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