Hi!

I accidentally read some of the documentation that comes with xfig (..) and found
that a program to convert postscript files to xfig files would be worth having.
The program pstoedit does just that along with converting it to a couple of other formats
that probably isn't too useful on the amiga at the moment (tgif and mif format).

This version is compiled with SAS/C and an arexx script has been added, so there
is no need for 'sh' or any other unix commands. It uses ghostscript, 
so you'll still need that.

If you have all the programs needed you can write:

sh pstoedit -f xfig tiger.ps

or rx pstoedit.rexx tiger.ps

If you use the unix script you have to edit the resulting fig file
by removing the duplicate header:

#FIG 3.1
Portrait
Flush Left
Inches
1200 2

Other than that it actually seems to work!

To edit the resulting file you'll want to get the latest version of my port
of xfig (xfig9d.lha) or eh..um..the AmiWin version of xfig..

TP

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[generic]                  160     388  41.2% -lh5- d3e5 Jan 14  1996 pstoedit/escher.triang.fig
[generic]                  331    1518  21.8% -lh5- 4d88 Jan 15  1996 pstoedit/illusion.fig
[generic]                  441     961  45.9% -lh5- cd8b Jan 11  1996 pstoedit/illusion.ps
[generic]                48921  114632  42.7% -lh5- 369d Feb  4  1996 pstoedit/makeedit
[generic]                 1114    2549  43.7% -lh5- bf2d Feb  4  1996 pstoedit/pstoedit.rexx
[generic]                 1221    2792  43.7% -lh5- 804d Feb  4  1996 pstoedit/pstoedit.txt
[generic]                 5078   16105  31.5% -lh5- 8822 Feb  4  1996 pstoedit/spiral.fig
[generic]                27698   87082  31.8% -lh5- 4809 Jan 14  1996 pstoedit/tiger.fig
[generic]                 6993   17982  38.9% -lh5- dc3e Jan  8  1996 pstoedit/COPYING
[generic]                  629    1448  43.4% -lh5- e66c Jan 11  1996 pstoedit/escher.triang.ps
[generic]                 8298   32881  25.2% -lh5- daa4 Jan 14  1996 pstoedit/golfer.ps.fig
[generic]                  781    1557  50.2% -lh5- f271 Jan  8  1996 pstoedit/HISTORY
[generic]                  416     840  49.5% -lh5- 178f Jan  8  1996 pstoedit/PROBLEMS
[generic]                 2157    4750  45.4% -lh5- 251b Jan 15  1996 pstoedit/pstoedit
[generic]                 1143    2316  49.4% -lh5- ef97 Jan  8  1996 pstoedit/pstoedit.man
[generic]                 3191    8500  37.5% -lh5- 8937 Jan 11  1996 pstoedit/pstoedit.pro
[generic]                 1885    3826  49.3% -lh5- 59aa Jan  8  1996 pstoedit/README
[generic]                  817    1755  46.6% -lh5- 443a Jan 11  1996 pstoedit/spiral.ps
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