EPS, PS Writer/ Driver for Windows?

[W TRYK]

>Subject: EPS, PS Writer/ Driver for Windows?
>From: "Nick S." <nst...@mindspring.com>
>Date: 03/04/1999 11:53 AM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <36DEE4C2...@mindspring.com>
>
>I am trying to create eps files for eventual placement in Quark 3.3 for
>Mac. Unfortunately, the only software that I have been able to get to
>work properly for this particular use is "Visio." (Not to start platform
>wars but I am not happy about this need for Windows at all, and have
>tried to find an app for mac that works and have not found anything.)
>Unfortunately, Visio's eps filter is very bad (no postscript font
>recognition. . .I thought TT fonts would not work in eps??)
>
>I am looking for a way to create eps or ps that will parse in mac
>Illustrator, or Mac-distill-export as eps from Exchange? The eps and ps
>that I create from an HP 6MP postscript printer driver (print to file)
>distill properly into the Windows PDF format but when trying to distill
>these same eps/ps in Mac I get errors.
>
>%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: In the PostScript dialog box,
>click Optimize
>
>-and-
>
>%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: Ji ]%%
>
>When trying to open the Windows eps in Mac Illustrator 8 it is "unable
>to parse the file."
>
>Is there a driver in Windows that writes postscript as well as the LW8
>driver for Mac? Or if there is a better way in general to create an eps
>file for this purpose that I am not aware of I would be grateful to know
>it.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>
>Nick Sternberg
>Frontline Design, Ltd.
>
***
I don't know about the Mac, but I can output EPS files (from PageMaker for
example) on my Windows system and open them right up in Illustrator 8. They
will ocassionally need a little "touch-up" however.

I simply do a "print to file" and select the "EPS" option using any installed
Postscript printer (I generally use Lino 530). The subsequent EPS file loads
into Illustrator 8 without a problem.

Warren Tryk Design
Tumwater, Washington USA
<wt...@aol.com>

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[Del Tree]

In article <36DEE4C2...@mindspring.com>, Nick S.
<nst...@mindspring.com> writes

Have you tried the Adobeps range of printer drivers for Windows?
Check them out on their Website (they're all downloadable free of
charge). Versions are available for Win95/98 and NT4 along with ppds
(printer description files) for more makes and models of printers than
you can shake a stick at! :-)
Hope this helps.

--
Del Tree

[Neil Gould]

Hi Nick,

Nick S. wrote in message <36E04757...@mindspring.com>...
>
>And the next question would be: Does anyone know of a utility that
>converts eps files to different types of eps platforms/formats?
>
I've been using TechPool's Transverter Pro for a few years with satisfactory
results...

Regards,

Neil Gould
--------------------
Terra Tu AV

[Del Tree]

In article <36E04757...@mindspring.com>, Nick S.
<nst...@mindspring.com> writes
>Thanks for the tip! It turns out the earlier version of the driver
>works.
>
>Adobeps4.1 and not 4.2. I assume the reason has to do with the
>postscript level; 4.1 is level 1 or 2 and 4.2 is 2 and 3 only. I don't
>know why that matters when trying to open in mac Illustrator 8. . .

>
>And the next question would be: Does anyone know of a utility that
>converts eps files to different types of eps platforms/formats?
>

>Nick Sternberg
>
We found out the hard way that PS4.1 works with Win95 and PS4.2.4 with
Win98! Unfortunately I can't answer your other questions never having
had to do this - but I'm sure there's a man or woman who can! ;-)
--
Del Tree