Re: Problems with postscript created from 'gksm2ps'

[Wendy Wang <wwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gary,

Did you try GSview (http://www.ghostgum.com.au/index.htm)? 
I can convert PS to EPS using GSview. 
But you may not be able to insert a BIG eps into Word documents.

Wendy

At 15:33 2005-6-2, Gary Strand wrote:

>I've got a rather large (34 MB) metafile that FERRET 5.80 generated, and converting it with 'Fprint' or 'gksm2ps' works OK, however, I can't view or convert the resulting postscript file. 'gs' balks with:
>
>Error: /typecheck in --aload--
>Operand stack:
>   --nostringval--
>Execution stack:
>   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
>--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   
>1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   
>.runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   
>%stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
>--nostringval--
>Dictionary stack:
>   --dict:1062/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:110/200(L)--
>Current allocation mode is local
>Current file position is 29314071
>GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
>I'm trying to convert the ps file to eps, and none of the tools I usually use work.
>
>Is there a tool somewhere out there that can look at/convert the metafile other than 'gksm2ps'? Most of the tools I've found on the Web are really old - mid-1990s, since the GKS Metafile standard is somewhat dated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Gary Strand
>strandwg@ucar.edu
>http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/strandwg