![]() Technically, it's a browser/viewer for images and PDF files. Preview is an application that comes pre-installed on every Mac. Elegant, powerful, unpretentious, highly useful, free. If anyone knows a way to either use it fully via the command line or replace it with another program that fully handles *.eps formats and has a command line interface, I'd love to hear about it.Preview on the Mac. Anyway, Apple does a great job handling the complexity of the *.eps format in Preview.app/. I think it actually tries rending an image from another program and modifying the image, losing all scalable text which is the focus of my images. In this case, I can use Image Magick but the results have lost the high quality text rendering because they don't understand the ps syntax. The problem is that because *.eps files are written in a computer language of their own, most typical command line image editing software like ImageMagick skips over coding for them because of the complexity involved. If they didn't forget to write it, they did forgot to annotate it! Anyway, it might be that there is another program that can handle it, but so far I'm stumped. However, Apple seems so obsessed with user interfaces that it seems that they forgot to write a command line interface for the program Preview. ![]() I imagine there would be something like a -save command line option. I mean, I already have scripts that make the files in the first place, so it's very simple to modify those scripts slightly to run a command that uses the files and renames their output. The reason I wanted to use the command line is because that's the most direct way to do what I want. I just tried it, but the only part of the task I did that it seemed to be aware of was the navigating to the file and opening it. ![]() That's neat, but unfortunately, it seems to have a long way to go before it could be useful. ![]()
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