Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!cheddar.cc.ubc.ca!halliday From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Converting GIF to Postscript? Summary: You bet! Message-ID: <4707@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 12 Aug 89 20:42:29 GMT References: <12265@grebyn.com> Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca Reply-To: halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) Organization: UBC Computing Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 21 In article <12265@grebyn.com> karl@grebyn.com (Karl Nyberg) writes: >Is it possible? Yes. > Has anybody done it? Routinely; I turned a GIF picture into EPSF for a PageMaker document just yesterday. > Can they point me to software that >might do it? Try gif2ps, which you can ftp from surya.waterloo.edu. It reads the picture, converts the colour palette to grey scale and dumps out the results as a PostScript image. It works well on a Sun-3, but I haven't been able to make it work (yet) on the crummy XT clone I usually use. The version you will get from surya doesn't create EPSF, but you don't have to change much to make it do so. ...laura