I have been playing around with Finalwriter, and noticed that all the enclosed clipart are .epsf files, and wondered what they were compared to eps, and googled them.
EPS is ( was?) quite a popular vector image format. ProPage and PageStream can both use eps clipart files. There used to be a number of tools to convert eps into other formats (including bitmap ones). Try Aminet.
I imagine that svg would possibly be preferable nowadays. What we could do with is an eps to svg converter.
PageStream can import all of the FW cliparts correctly. Here is the proof:
There is a vector converter/viewer on Aminet called Metaview which should open such files.
Yep, I know Pagestream can use epsf files, and the other programs I mentioned.
The problem is creating the epsf clipart myself. The article I linked to created epsf files from Pict files, which I assume are a bitmap picture format. An equivelant program for the amiga would allow me to use IFX4.5 etc, to create the required bitmap, and then run some sort of convert bitmap to epsf program to get the clipart in a format usable on my A1. As far as I know svg format is not supported on the Amiga, unless someone can create an svg datatype.
Thanks for the heads up on metaview, I used it on my A1200, but on previous update of OS4.0 is did not work properly, and I haven't looked at it lateley, since before update#4. It might be worth giving it a whirl, and also I think Drawstudio could output eps so I'll have a look at that.
EPS is ( was?) quite a popular vector image format. ProPage and PageStream can both use eps clipart files. There used to be a number of tools to convert eps into other formats (including bitmap ones). Try Aminet.
I imagine that svg would possibly be preferable nowadays. What we could do with is an eps to svg converter.
Actually the other way round (svg to epsf). Most Amiga wordprocessors, DTP programs are capable of using epsf, but as far as I know not svg. There is a lot of svg clipart on the net which is therfore useless to us Amiga users.
SVG datatype works fine for most tasks. It does tend to cause complete lock-ups when attempting to handle text (on Final Update, haven't tried it on the post-final update).
SvgTools will allow batch conversion of svg files to .png and postscript. Don't know how close a .ps file is to an .eps though or whether Final Writer et al can handle .png?
SVG datatype works fine for most tasks. It does tend to cause complete lock-ups when attempting to handle text (on Final Update, haven't tried it on the post-final update).
I will give the datatype a go this weekend, it might be useful as I could utilise the freely available svg clipart.
The thing I really want to do is create my own clipart, and as I am not much of a 'graphic artist' so I thought the idea of a bitmap (in the example PICT files) to eps converter would be useful.
SvgTools will allow batch conversion of svg files to .png and postscript. Don't know how close a .ps file is to an .eps though or whether Final Writer et al can handle .png?
I found some links on google, here, here, and here. It looks relatively simple (if you are a programmer)
The thing I really want to do is create my own clipart, and as I am not much of a 'graphic artist' so I thought the idea of a bitmap (in the example PICT files) to eps converter would be useful.
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(tongue in cheek suggestion) Maybe mindspace could have a save as eps option.
