Hi there
I have a few old PostScript image files I cannot
read in newer versions of image viewers such as xv
or gimp.
these PS files start like the example given below.
Any idea how I could convert these to something readable
by more modern viewers ?
Frederic
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%! Scribe @graphic style PostScript
%%BoundingBox: 0.000 0.000 620.000 589.607
%%CreationDate: Mon Jan 8 19:36:30 1990
/inch { 72 mul } def
/picstr 32 string def
gsave
100 0 translate
-40 530 moveto
8 setlinewidth
0 -200 rlineto
-8 0 rlineto
8 -20 rlineto
8 20 rlineto
-8 0 rlineto
-44 530 moveto
208 0 rlineto
0 -8 rlineto
20 8 rlineto
-20 8 rlineto
0 -8 rlineto
stroke
/Times-Bold findfont
40 scalefont
setfont
-70 550 moveto
(0) show
-80 280 moveto
(X) show
190 550 moveto
(Y) show
7 inch 6.65686 inch scale
102 97 8 [102 0 0 -97 0 97] { currentfile picstr readhexstring pop }
image
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
etc etc
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Frederic FOL LEYMARIE, R&D Project leader, SHAPE Lab.
http://www.lems.brown.edu/vision/extra/SHAPE/
Brown University, Division of Engineering, LEMS, Box D
182-4 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, U.S.A.
Tel: +1.401.863.2760, Alternate Voice: x2177, Fax: x9039
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.lems.brown.edu/~leymarie
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