INSTALLATION ------------ * Prerequisites you need: - perl (an interpreter for the perl language, see http://www.perl.com) - ghostscript (an interpreter/raster image processor for the PostScript language, see http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) - maybe an ANSI-C compiler if the provided binaries for bbox do not work for you. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I tried to write a bbox equivalent in perl and it was terribly slow. Therefore I stick to C, because of much better performance. ALTERNATIVELY you can use ps2eps option -g, then no bbox binary is required. * How to install Please check that you have working perl and ghostscript packages. Linux/UNIX-based platform ========================= 1.) install bbox If a bbox binary is included for your platform you simply move it into any directory of the system search path. Otherwise, you have to compile bbox.c first by invoking cc -o bbox bbox.c. (sometimes "make bbox" also works). Please make sure that bbox is executable (chmod a+x bbox). If you already have a working perl and a working ghostscript, you're finished here, else you have to install them first. 2.) install ps2eps On Unix platforms you simply move the perl script ps2eps into a directory which is included in the system or personal search path (e.g., /usr/local/bin, $home/bin). Please make sure that ps2eps is executable (chmod a+x ps2eps). Windows-based platform ====================== Use the command line interpreter: Copy bbox.exe from bin/win32/ directory into a directory that is in your's or the system's search path for executables. Please try to invoke bbox -h afterwards. The best possibility is to use associated file types under Windows NT/2000/XP: 1.) rename ps2eps to ps2eps.pl and 2.) SET PATHEXT=.pl;%PATHEXT% or use the settings -> control panel -> system -> "advanced" tab -> environment variables and edit the PATHEXT entry accordingly. 3.) then simply typing ps2eps should invoke ps2eps correctly Another option is to call perl directly: perl ps2eps ... The script assumes that you have "gswin32c" as postscript interpreter in your path. Under Windows ps2eps can perform wildcard expansion now on its own. UPDATES ------- Possibly you can find the newest version at the following URL: http://tm.uka.de/~bless/ps2eps