[Gsview] pstoedit ps->dxf conversion problem (May have wrong list)

Down, Ed (Tucson) ed.down at honeywell.com
Mon May 17 14:49:11 PDT 2004


I have an issue converting a ProE-created .ps file into dxf. I am sure I have done this successfully before, but now I
cant.

I am using the following on an NT box
*	GS 8.14
*	GSView 4.6
*	PstoEdit 3.33

I reinstalled PstoEdit, but it made no difference. I also tried converting the document using pswrite, and then trying
the dxf conversion, with no difference. Also tried to convert a pdf version, with the same errors. I have tried
rebooting, etc, and I have spent an hour or so looking at Web links, to no avail.

Here is the error box text that pops up from GSView when I do the dxf conversion:

		GSview 4.6 2004-01-11
		Unknown in Comments section at line 5:
		  %%CreateDate: 14-May-04 11:15:51

		Unknown in Comments section at line 6:
		  %%DocumentFonts: Times-Roman

		AFPL Ghostscript 8.14 (2004-02-20)
		Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
		This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
		Displaying DSC file C:/Local/Plots/6430335.ps
		Displaying page 1
		Warning: EPS file must not use /setpagedevice
		Loading pstoedit
		Warning: EPS file must not use /serverdict


		pstoedit: version 3.33 / DLL interface 108 (build Jan  6 2003 - release build) : Copyright (C) 1993 -
2003 Wolfgang Glunz
		Interpreter finished. Return status -1
		The interpreter seems to have failed, cannot proceed !


The ps errors seem to be associated with the following section in the ps file, although I cannot find the /serverdict in
my ps file. I am also not sure why it is mentioning EPS, as the document should be straight ps. 

		[SNIP]
		%%BeginPageSetup
		systemdict /setpagedevice known
		{
		  <</PageSize[2448 1584]>> setpagedevice
		} if
		%%EndPageSetup
		[SNIP]

There is output in the dxf file, but not much. The last stuff in the dxf is as follows.

		[SNIP]
		ENDTAB
		  0
		ENDSEC
		  0
		SECTION
		  2
		ENTITIES

Hope somebody can understand this stuff.

Ed


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