Re: converting metafile to EPS

[James Orr <James.Orr@xxxxxx>]

Hi Hein,

I use Ferret 5.8, and this script works just fine (as it did for
.plt files made with previous versions of Ferret).  Sounds like the 
problem lies in other software on your system.

-- Jim

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Hein Zelle wrote:

> James Orr wrote:
> 
> > To do what you ask I used the attached shell script.
> > In unix, you would just do 
> > 
> >   plt2all filename*.plt
> > 
> > and the script creates .ps, .eps, .pdf, and .png output files for
> > each .plt input file.  The resulting .eps, .pdf, and .png files are
> > also clipped correctly (all bordering white space removed).
> 
> I've tried your script (thanks!), it uses the same commands that I
> used to use in my own script. Unfortunately the resulting plots
> confirm my suspicion: either ferret v5.8 or some other software on my
> system is messing up. The plots are all in the middle of an
> approximate A4 sheet, so the cropping (by ps2epsi) went wrong.
> 
> I'll try ferret 5.8 at home (still using 5.7 there) to find out if the
> problem is in gks2mps, ferret or ps2epsi.
> 
> Hein Zelle
> 
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>  it's friends are.
> 
>  Hein Zelle                     hein@icce.rug.nl
> 	                        http://www.icce.rug.nl/~hein
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> 

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