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From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Converting GIF to Postscript?
Summary: You bet!
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Date: 12 Aug 89 20:42:29 GMT
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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