# pstoedit 3.21

pstoedit translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats. Currently pstoedit can generate the following formats:

- Tgif .obj format (for tgif version >= 3)
- .fig format for xfig
- pdf - Adobe's Portable Document Format
- gnuplot format
- Flattened PostScript (with or without Bezier curves)
- DXF - CAD exchange format
- LWO - LightWave 3D
- RIB - RenderMan
- RPL - Real3D
- Java 1 or Java 2 applet
- Idraw format (in fact a special form of EPS that idraw can read)
- Tcl/Tk
- HPGL
- AI (Adobe Illustrator) (based on ps2ai.ps - not a real pstoedit driver - see notes below and manual)
- Windows Meta Files (WMF) (Windows 9x/NT only)
- Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (Windows 9x/NT only)
- OS/2 meta files (OS/2 only)
- PIC format for troff/groff
- MetaPost format for usage with TeX/LaTeX
- LaTeX2e picture
- Killustrator
- GNU Metafile (plotutils / libplot)
- Sketch ( http://www.online.de/home/sketch/ )

The following formats are available as additional plugins on a shareware basis. See http://www.geocities.com/wglunz/plugins/ for more details.

- (Frame)Maker Intermediate Format (MIF)
- CGM Format (both binary and textual)
- SVG - scalable vector format. One candidate of the W3C for a web standard for vector drawings. See http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ for more details.
- Better Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (supports curves and compound pathes and does more accurate text formatting) (Windows 9x/NT only)
- RTF (MS Word) (Windows 9x/NT only)

Implementing support for other formats should be very easy. The architecture of pstoedit consists of a PostScript frontend which needs to call a PostScript interpreter like Ghostscript and the individual backends which are pugged into a kind of framework. This framework can be used independently from the PostScript frontend from any other program. The framework provides a uniform interface to all different backends. You need a C++ compiler to compile and GhostScript to run pstoedit. pstoedit should run on all Un*x like systems and has also been ported to OS/2, Windows 9x/NT, and RiscOS.

Since version 3.00 it is possible to add new drivers without even recompiling the core program. pstoedit can load additional drivers as plugins.

You can download pstoedit:

- source code
- binary for Windows 9x/NT
- additional plugins
- binary for Solaris (including the MIF, CGM and SVG plugin)
- binary for Linux (including the MIF, CGM and SVG plugin)
- a version of pstoedit that can be used as graphic import filter for MS-Office 95/97, Paint Shop Pro, or Photoline

pstoedit can also be used from within gsview.

Please note: gsview 2.70 is not compatible with this version of pstoedit. You need a newer version of gsview. All versions above 3 should be OK. The setup of gsview already includes a recent version of pstoedit. If you want to use the latest version instead, install the content of the Windows binaries for pstoedit into the pstoedit directory that is in parallel to the gsview directory where gsview is installed. Usually this is something like C:\Ghostgum\gsview. So pstoedit would go to C:\Ghostgum\pstoedit.

For the ps2ai backend, you first need to install a simple patch to ps2ai.ps in your gs directory if your version of GhostScript is older than 5.60. See the manual for more details.

You get can more information from:

- The manual,
- The readme file.
- The change log

pstoedit also cooperates with autotrace. Autotrace can produce a dump file for further processing by pstoedit using the -bo (backend only) option. Autotrace is a program written by a group around Martin Weber and can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace/

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