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<h1 align="center">pstoedit</h1>
<h1><a name="Overview">Overview</a></h1>
<p>pstoedit translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats. </p>
<h1><a name="Supported Formats">Supported Formats</a></h1>
<p>Currently pstoedit can generate the following major formats: </p>
<ul>
<li>Tgif .obj format (for tgif version >= 3) </li>
<li>.fig format for xfig </li>
<li>pdf - Adobe's Portable Document Format </li>
<li>gnuplot format </li>
<li>Flattened PostScript (with or without Bezier curves)</li>
<li>DXF - CAD exchange format </li>
<li>LWO - LightWave 3D </li>
<li>RIB - RenderMan </li>
<li>RPL - Real3D </li>
<li>Java 1 or Java 2 applet </li>
<li>Idraw format (in fact a special form of EPS that idraw
can read)</li>
<li>Tcl/Tk</li>
<li>HPGL</li>
<li>AI (Adobe Illustrator) (based on ps2ai.ps - not a real
pstoedit driver - see notes below and manual)</li>
<li>Windows Meta Files (WMF) (Windows 9x/NT only) </li>
<li>Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (Windows 9x/NT only)</li>
<li>OS/2 meta files (OS/2 only) </li>
<li>PIC format for troff/groff</li>
<li>MetaPost format for usage with TeX/LaTeX</li>
<li>LaTeX2e picture</li>
<li>Kontour</li>
<li>GNU Metafile (plotutils / libplot)</li>
<li>Skencil( <a href="http://sketch.sourceforge.net">http://www.skencil.org</a>
)</li>
<li>Mathematica</li>
<li>via ImageMagick to any format supported by ImageMagick</li>
<li>SWF </li>
</ul>
<p>Besides these some further very special formats are supported. See the
<a href="pstoedit.htm">pstoedit.htm</a> for a complete list of available
drivers. </p>
<p>The following formats are available as additional plugins on a
shareware basis. See <a href="../plugins/">http://www.pstoedit.net/plugins/</a>
for more details. </p>
<ul>
<li>(Frame)Maker Intermediate Format (MIF)</li>
<li>CGM Format (both binary and textual) </li>
<li>SVG - scalable vector format. One candidate of the W3C
for a web standard for vector drawings. See <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG">http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG</a>/
for more details.</li>
<li>Better Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (supports curves
and compound pathes and does more accurate text
formatting) (Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista only)</li>
<li>RTF (MS Word) (Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista only)</li>
</ul>
<p>Implementing support for other formats should be very easy.
The architecture of pstoedit consists of a PostScript frontend
which needs to call a PostScript interpreter like Ghostscript and
the individual backends which are pugged into a kind of framework.
This framework can be used independently from the PostScript
frontend from any other program. The framework provides a uniform
interface to all different backends. You need a C++ compiler to
compile and GhostScript to run pstoedit. pstoedit should run on
all Un*x like systems (including cygwin) and has also been ported to OS/2, Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista,
and RiscOS. </p>
<p>Since version 3.00 it is possible to add new drivers without
even recompiling the core program. pstoedit can load additional
drivers as plugins.</p>
<h1><a name="Download">Download</a></h1>
<p>You can download pstoedit: </p>
<ul>
<li>Source tarball:
<a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pstoedit/pstoedit-3.45.tar.gz?download">pstoedit-3.45.tar.gz</a> </li>
<li>
<a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pstoedit/pstoeditsetup345.exe?download">binary for Windows 9x/2K/NT/XP/Vista</a> - If you
don't have the following two DLLs (msvcr70.dll and msvcp70.dll) already
installed, you need to install them as well - either in the system directory
or in the pstoedit directory. You can get a copy
<a href="msvc-runtimelibs.zip">here</a>. Under Windows XP and later these libs are
usually already installed.</li>
<li><a href="../plugins/index.htm">additional plugins</a></li>
<li><a href="../importps/index.htm">a version of pstoedit that can be
used as graphic import filter for MS-Office 95/97/2K/XP/2007, Paint
Shop Pro, or Photoline</a></li>
</ul>
<p>In case of download problems, visit this page via the
<a href="http://www.fam-glunz.de/pstoedit/">alternate
URL</a>. </p>
<p>pstoedit can also be used from within <a
href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/">gsview</a> via the "Edit|Convert to
vector" menu.</p>
<h1><a name="More Information">More Information</a></h1>
<p>You get can more information from: </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="pstoedit.htm">The manual</a>, </li>
<li><a href="readme.txt">The readme file</a>. </li>
<li><a href="changelog.htm">The change log</a></li>
</ul>
<p>pstoedit also cooperates with autotrace. Autotrace can produce
a dump file for further processing by pstoedit using the -bo (backend
only) option. Autotrace is a program written by a group around
Martin Weber and can be found at <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace/</a>
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<h1><a name="Related Links">Related Links</a></h1>
<p>Some links more or less related to pstoedit can be found
<a href="related.htm">here</a>.</p>
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<h1><a name="Mailing list">Mailing List</a></h1>
<p>There is an e-mail list for people that want to be informed
about updates and bug-fixes related to pstoedit and importps. </p>
<p>Please note: This list is provided via egroups.com which adds
a small commercial message to every mail sent to the list. You
won't get additional advertisement via this list. Only the one
that comes with each message sent explicitly to the list. If you
don't like this policy, don't subscribe.</p>
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