Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!cbnewsc!vgopal
From: vgopal@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (venu.p.gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Converting GIF to Postscript?
Message-ID: <2404@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 89 15:54:55 GMT
References: <12265@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: vgopal@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (venu.p.gopal)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <12265@grebyn.com> karl@grebyn.com (Karl Nyberg) writes:
>Is it possible?  Has anybody done it?  Can they point me to software that
>might do it?
>
>-- Karl -- 

Yes, it can be done.  What I do is to display it using a GIF display program
and then capture it to postscript using a postscript screen capturing utility
called SCRtoPS.  SCRtoPS will convert color to greyscale on EGA/VGA so your
black and white prints come out ok.

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