Re: ps2eps 1.35 in /incoming/ps2eps

Roland Bless has submitted an update of support/ps2eps

he writes of it:

ps2eps v1.35 in CTAN:support/ps2eps

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 errorneous results on printers.

You need:

• perl (an interpreter for the perl language, see http://www.perl.com)
• ghostscript (an interpreter/raster image processor for the PostScript language, see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
• maybe an ANSI-C compiler if you don't use Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix, HP-UX or Windows 9x/NT/2000.

The program is licensed under gpl.

Important changes since version 1.28:

• Improved processing of files with leading or trailing binary code
• Improved processing of files with embedded binary coded images
• Removes gabby diagnostic output from Adobe Printer Driver (see variable removeADO)
• Corrected handling of existing %%BoundingBox comments. Now it takes the last one seen. Should esp. work with %%BoundingBox: (atend) usage...
• Fixed case sensitiveness when checking for suffix replacement (thanks to Erik J=F8rgensen)
• Heuristic added for finding end of file by counting %%EOF comments. Now correctly treats already embedded EPS, too. Usually only trailing garbage (e.g., PCL control sequences) follows last %%EOF. However, sometimes the last %%EOF may be missing. Therefore, the behavior is switchable by new -E option.
• New first line of code for getting rid of the #! comment
• EOF handling corrected, allowing better handling of already embedded eps files
• New -P option to allow selective removal of embedded preview images (was previously default)
• Preview images were not filtered in the prolog section (now corrected with -P)
• New -N option to prevent inclusion of any surrounding postscript code

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team