In earlier versions of our software along with supporting Quickdraw
printing we also directly supported printing via HPGL, HPGL/2,
Calcomp PCI, DMPL, Postscript, EPS and a host of other printing/
plotting languages. For our OS X version of our software we have
dropped support for everything except Quartz. The ability to
create PDF files comes for free since we are using Quartz. For most
of our customers this is okay.
We have one customer that was making use of EPS to place drawings/
images into word processing documents. Is there a way to convert
from a PDF file into an EPS file, or to directly create an EPS file?
Not that I'm aware of. I use Ghostscript for that conversion. But I
do it from the command line so my solution is not very user friendly :-)
If not, are there other image formats that can easily be created
thru the normal print mechanism?
At WWDC last year I remember someone demonstrating how you could
create some kind of printing script that would convert the image to
a raster format. At this point I don't remember if that was GIF,
TIFF, JPEG or something.
Since Core Graphics can be scripted with Python, it is conceivable
that you could create a script which caught the PDF output and dumped
it into any format for which there is a QuickTime Exporter.
Look up "printing workflows" from the mac help menu. It may give you
some idea of how to get started.
Scott
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