PS to EPS It is not possible to convert an arbitrary PostScript file to EPS. Adobe Acrobat Distiller is Adobe's ps to eps utility. But many single page PostScript files can be converted to EPS by changing the first line of the file to %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 and then adding or fixing up the %%BoundingBox comment. EPS files are commonly used for inclusion in other documents and for this reason require the bounding box comment. PS to PDF ghostscript has "The ability to convert PostScript language files to PDF (with some limitations) and vice versa; " To convert a PostScript file to a PDF file, use ghostscript File | Convert, then select the pdfwrite device. The following is from the ghostscript help topic "PS to EPS". If the document contains DSC comments and is multi page, ghostscript can extract the desired page with File | Extract. EPS documents must not use any of the following operators: banddevice clear cleardictstack copypage erasepage exitserver framedevice grestoreall initclip initgraphics initmatrix quit renderbands setglobal setpagedevice setpageparams setshared startjob letter note legal a3 a4 a5 The following operators should be used with care: nulldevice setgstate sethalftone setmatrix setscreen settransfer setcolortransfer To test if a document contains any of the above operators, select Options | EPS Warn and then Open the desired document. After the page has been displayed, Close the document and then display the Ghostscript messages with File | Show Messages. If you want a preview, ghostscript can add it with Edit | Add EPS Preview after first creating an EPS file with a correct %%BoundingBox. =================================================================== GENERAL http://www.pdfzone.com/toolbox/toolinfo_create.html http://www.pdfzone.com/toolbox/toolinfo_prepress.html http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Word_Processors/PDF/Converters/ At http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert/index.htm is a web-based converter. It uses AFPL Ghostscript to converts a user supplied Postscript file to PDF file. Provides FAQs, help files. 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