From chemistry-request@www.ccl.net Thu Feb 18 16:42:07 1999 Received: from reco7.musc.edu (reco7.musc.edu [128.23.81.5]) by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/8.8.6/OSC/CCL 1.0) with ESMTP id QAA27896 Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:42:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (dayong@localhost) by reco7.musc.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id QAA07566; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:41:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:41:31 -0800 (PST) From: He Dayong To: chemistry@www.ccl.net cc: ww@george.rutgers.edu Subject: summary : Is there a program capable of converting ps file to latex file Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A few weeks ago I posted a question about converting ps file to latex file, thanks a lot to the people who replied to my question. Here is my original question: On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Dayong He wrote: Hello, Everyone, I just wonder if there is a code capable of converting PostScript file to latex file and also extracting out the figures in it. Thanks a lot in advance for your information. Dayong Based on the replies I recieved, it is not possible to do this job directly in one step. The practical approach is to extract the figures/pictures and the text in separate steps - convert ps file text file, and extract the figures and pictures in it. All the replies are listed below. Maybe we can scratch a short shell script to do it. Thank you very much for your replies. Dayong PS: replies, date and senders' email addresses. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1).Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:16:18-0500 (EST) Hi, He Dayong, As to my knowledge, there is a program called "ps2ascii" which could transform a ps file into a text file. But you will lose the image information. I remember there is a program called "ps2gif" which may extract images from ps files, but it seems could only extract the first image. So if the images are in different pages, you can just save them as one page per ps file, and try to extract those images. Wei ww@george.rutgers.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2).Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 19:57:52 -0500 (EST) Please let me know if you obtained one; I personally do not think it is even remotely possible. Iraj Daizadeh, Ph. D. daizadeh@fas.harvard.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:54:06 -0800 Hi Dayong: Do you want to convert text files that you have in postscript to latex? Postscript describes text on a much lower level (i.e., on the level of single letters or word fragments) than latex and therefore knows nothing about LaTex's structures like sections, references, environments. I don't know what size of text you're thinking of, for a short one it is probably easiest to just type it manually, for large text bodies there might be some semi-automated way using OCR software that is also able to guess the structure from the layout. For extracting pictures, try - ps2epsi or pstoepsi: to convert single PS pages to "encapsulated" PS pictures - xfig: to edit these - psselect: to select single PS pages from a longer file. They are public domain, and you should find them on the web; let me know if you have questions about that. Wolfgang Huber whuber@almaden.ibm.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- (4). Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:03:15 +0000 (CUT) Hello Dayong, as I Know, there is no way to make a conversion, but you can use \usepackage{epsfig,psfig} in the header of a latex file and put the diseres postscript in with: \psfig{file=postscript_file.ps,width=17cm} If you've got to make changes in the postscript file, you can use gimp (www.gimp.org) to do that. Good luck Alex hofmann@thkin.pci.uni-leipzig.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- (5). Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:37:50 -0600 (CST) Hi Dayong, you can incorporate a postscript figure in a number of ways into a latex document (see book below), but I know of no way to do the Postscript -> Latex reaction. cheers, Toni toni@athe.wustl.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- (6). Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 00:37:04 -0400 Hello Dayong, I work with latex by many years and I dont know some program that perform the conversion postscript to latex but I suggest you to ask to the company PCTEX that sell the latex program, the e-mail is: pti@crl.com and the phone number is (415) 388.8853 Gloria gcardena@lauca.usach.cl