RE: Problem including EPS made by Photoshop

[ahoward]

address@hidden wrote:
> 
> I need to have a screenshot of a GUI window in one of my reports. I
> thought I've found a way by capturing a screenshot of the 
> window as a GIF and then converting it to EPS in Photoshop. I get an 
EPS 
> alright and can view it without problems in Gsview but when I include 
> it in the report Lout 3.24 says:
> 
> $ lout t.lt > t.ps
> lout file "t.lt":
>     33,1: @IncludeGraphic deleted (bad first line in file browser.eps)
> 

I've done a bit of EPS inclusion with lout.  Typically we've done
EPS files generated through Corel PhotoPaint, but I imagine Adobe
PhotoShop is similar.  For some reason, Corel will put binary 
information at the beginning and end of the EPS file that lout 
doesn't understand.  Perhaps there is some binary EPS format, but
I don't know.

At any rate, open your EPS file with a text editor and look at the
first line.  It should look like this:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0

EPS files saved by Corel would have a bunch of (what to me looked
like) crap in front of the "%!PS-Adobe" stuff.

I wrote a q&d app that would read in an EPS file and replace the 
first line with "%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0" and truncate everything 
after the "%%EOF" at the end.  Again, Corel put a bunch of binary 
stuff after that.  Once I did that, lout had no problem with the 
files.

The other thing to keep in mind is end-of-line (EOL) characters.  
Our EPS files are generated on a PC, so they have CR+LF as EOL, but 
we run lout on Linux, which expects the EPS file to have just LF as 
EOL.  If lout is looking for LF and the file uses CRLF, you'll have 
problems.  I wrote another q&d app for EOL conversions since I 
couldn't find one that did exactly what I wanted.

Good luck,

-Aaron Howard