New CTAN package: dosepsbin
Date: November 11, 2011 7:04:48 AM CET
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 Heiko Oberdiek submitted the
dosepsbin
package.
Summary description: Extract PS/WMF/TIFF sections from DOS EPS binary files
License type: artistic
Announcement text:
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The program dosepsbin analyses an EPS file that is not a plain ASCII PostScript
file but given as DOS EPS binary file.
dosepsbin [options] <input file>
First it analyzes the *input file*, validates its header and summarizes the
available sections. Depending on the given options, the sections are then
written to files.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/dosepsbin . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dosepsbin (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/dosepsbin . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dosepsbin (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
dosepsbin – Deal with DOS binary EPS files
A Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file may given in a special binary format to support the inclusion of a thumbnail. This file format, commonly known as DOS EPS format starts with a binary header that contains the positions of the possible sections:
- PostScript (PS);
- Windows Metafile Format (WMF); and
- Tag Image File Format (TIFF).
The PS section must be present and either the WMF file or the TIFF file should be given.
The package provides a Perl program that will extract any of the sections of such a file, in particular providing a ‘text’-form EPS file for use with (La)TeX.
| Package | dosepsbin |
| Version | 1.2 |
| Copyright | 2011 Heiko Oberdiek |
| Maintainer | Heiko Oberdiek |