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INSTALLATION
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* Prerequisites
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://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
- maybe an ANSI-C compiler if the provided binaries for bbox do not work
for you. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I tried to write a bbox
equivalent in perl and it was terribly slow. Therefore I stick to C,
because of much better performance.
ALTERNATIVELY you can use ps2eps option -g, then no bbox binary is
required.
* How to install
Please check that you have working
perl and ghostscript packages.
Linux/UNIX-based platform
=========================
1.) install bbox
If a bbox binary is included for your platform you simply move it
into any directory of the system search path. Otherwise, you have
to compile bbox.c first by invoking
cc -o bbox bbox.c.
(sometimes "make bbox" also works).
Please make sure that bbox is executable (chmod a+x bbox).
If you already have a working perl and a working ghostscript, you're
finished here, else you have to install them first.
2.) install ps2eps
On Unix platforms you simply move the perl script ps2eps into
a directory which is included in the system or personal search
path (e.g., /usr/local/bin, $home/bin). Please make sure that
ps2eps is executable (chmod a+x ps2eps).
Windows-based platform
======================
Use the command line interpreter:
Copy bbox.exe from bin/win32/ directory into a directory that is
in your's or the system's search path for executables. Please try
to invoke bbox -h afterwards.
The best possibility is to use associated file types under
Windows NT/2000/XP:
1.) rename ps2eps to ps2eps.pl and
2.) SET PATHEXT=.pl;%PATHEXT% or use the
settings -> control panel -> system -> "advanced" tab -> environment variables
and edit the PATHEXT entry accordingly.
3.) then simply typing ps2eps should invoke ps2eps correctly
Another option is to call perl directly:
perl ps2eps ...
The script assumes that you have "gswin32c" as
postscript interpreter in your path. Under Windows ps2eps
can perform wildcard expansion now on its own.
UPDATES
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Possibly you can find the newest version at the
following URL:
http://tm.uka.de/~bless/ps2eps
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