Short:    pstoedit - a program to convert postscript to xfig files.
Uploader: terjepe@login.eunet.no
Author:   Wolfgang Glunz / Terje Pedersen(Amiga 'port')
Type:     gfx/edit

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).

It has been compiled with gcc which means you have to have ixemul library installed.
It also uses ghostscript, so you'll also need that. And finally the script is written
to use the unix sh command. If you haven't got these I guess you'll have to get them!
I decided against adding them to the archive as it would double the size of it.
They are all available on aminet, so they aren't that far away.

If you have all the programs needed you can write:

sh pstoedit -f xfig tiger.ps

or some other postscript file. Since there aren't any amiga version of the unix ed
editor, 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 (xfig9c.lha) or eh..um..the AmiWin version of xfig..

TP