Re: Need a VBX to display EPS files screen previews... HELP!
From: S. Rao <shanti_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: 1997/07/24
Message-ID: <5r83q6$e40_at_nntp6.u.washington.edu>#1/1
Date: 1997/07/24
Message-ID: <5r83q6$e40_at_nntp6.u.washington.edu>#1/1
Olivier ETIENNE <shno_at_micronet.fr> writes:
>Hi,
>Working on a database, I need to display some pictures. Sounds easy ?
>So listen to that. All the pictures are in EPS Files created on
>Macintosh.
>And I must use a VBX (no activeX nor Ocx) to display those files.
>I can't find any VBX that can display the screen preview contained in an
>EPS file.
That's right, you can't. And you probably never will. Get GhostScript to convert PostScript to bitmaps, then display the bitmaps. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
--
Shanti %!PS /c {180 180} def c translate 180 -1 0 {/iter exch def 0
1 359 { /st exch def st iter add 360 mod 360 div 1 1 sethsbcolor c
moveto c iter st st 1 add arc fill } for } for showpage
Received on Thu Jul 24 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST