Re: CCL:Software from SGI PS to Mac PS?

 > The problem that the original poster may well be having is the need for an
 > _encapsulated_ PostScript file.  Whereas PostScript is a defined
 > cross-platform language made commercially by Adobe, and as such is
 "one"
 > format, EPS is an implementation that differs significantly among platforms
 > and even applications on the same platform.  The utility pstoeps (available
 Not quite. Unfortunately the term "Encapsulated PostScript" is used
 for two different things. Originally it referred to a special kind of
 PostScript file with some limitations (e.g. only one page) and a
 special set of comments indicating size, fonts etc. The idea is that
 programs can read in these EPS files and integrate them into a larger
 PostScript document. Any desktop publisher can do that, and also some
 graphics programs and the TeX dvips program. Any EPS file is a valid
 PostScript file, but the inverse is not necessarily true. And of
 course EPS files are just as machine-independent as general PS files,
 although some EPS files may include additional information (such as a
 preview bitmap) that might not be useful on all platforms. Most
 programs that produce images in PostScript format can produce EPS or
 even do so automatically.
 The confusion about EPS began when some programs (e.g. Adobe Illustrator)
 started to usea *subset* of EPS as an ordinary graphics file format that
 can be read in and analyzed without having a full PostScript interpreter.
 Instead of choosing a distinct name for this subset, people started
 to call this "EPS" too. There is some variation in the format for this
 kind of file, i.e. it can't be interchanged freely between platforms
 and programs.
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