Re: import of NCL's EPS output into Openoffice.org

Dear Fred,

thank you for your quick reply. I posted it to the OOo user forum and
got promising feedback. I am grateful to the OOo forum user acknak who
run a series of tests on one of my NCL-produced EPS files. According to
his results, a merely slight change of the internal file format (not to
the Postscript level) of NCL's EPS output would already suffice to get
things going: "to move the bounding box statement from the end up to the
top of the file" [either using epstool or by manual editing]. Please
refer to
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1146&start=10
for full details.

Would you think it is technically possible for the NCL developer team to
move the bounding box statement according to these suggestions, without
changing the Postscript level? This would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,
Marcus

Fred Clare wrote:
>
> On Apr 14, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Marcus Letzel wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> apparently Openoffice.org is unable to directly import NCL's EPS
>> output (header starts with "%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0") whereas it is
>> able to import the newer EPS format (header starts with
>> "%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0"). I refer to "direct import" as "without the
>> use of an external converter"; I'd be happy to avoid such an
>> additional postprocessing step.
>>
>> Is there a way to tell NCL to produce 3.0 EPS files, or any chance
>> NCL's EPS output format could be updated in a future NCL release?
>
> What NCL produces is in fact PostScript Level 2. Level 3 should be
> backward
> compatible with level 2. Some printers will not yet accept Level 3 and
> that is why
> we hesitate to flag our Postscript files at Level 3. It is my opinion
> that any printer
> or application that honors Level 3 should accept Level 2.
>
> Fred Clare
>
>

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