DOSEPSBIN(1)

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✨ DOSEPSBIN(1) ✨

okay bestie, buckle up 💖 this is the manual page for dosepsbin, a lil User Contributed Perl Documentation gem, and by the end of this you're gonna be unstoppable at pulling sections out of DOS EPS binary files. no cap. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

dosepsbin — extract PS/WMF/TIFF sections from DOS EPS binary files 🦋

💜 VERSION 💜

2012-03-22 v1.2 — vintage, iconic, still slaying.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

so here's the tea: the program dosepsbin analyses an EPS file that is not a plain ASCII PostScript file, but given as a DOS EPS binary file. it's giving "not like other EPS files" 💅

dosepsbin [options] <input file>

first it analyzes the input file, validates its header, and summarizes the available sections (like a lil vibe check for your file 🔍). then, depending on the given options, the sections are written to files.

Options:

--eps-file <file>      Write PS section to <file>.
--wmf-file <file>      Write WMF section to <file>.
--tiff-file <file>      Write TIFF section to <file>.
--inputfile <file>     The name of the input file.
--verbose              Verbose output.
--quiet                Only errors and warnings are printed.
--help                 Brief help message.
--man                  Full documentation.
--version              Print version identification.
⚠️ the files for output must be different from the input file. like, do not. fr fr.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

🌈 DOS EPS Binary File Format 🌈

a Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file can also be given in a special binary format to support the inclusion of a thumbnail 👑 (yes, your EPS can have a lil selfie attached, main character energy). the file format starts with a binary header that contains the positions of the possible sections:

  • Postscript (PS) 🍓
  • Windows Metafile Format (WMF) 🧚
  • Tag Image File Format (TIFF) 💜
📌 the PS section must be present, and either the WMF file or the TIFF file should be given. that's the rule, bestie.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --eps-file=<file> — the PS section gets written to <file>. the output file must be different from the input file. no exceptions, queen 💖
  • --wmf-file=<file> — the WMF section gets written to <file> if present. the output file must be different from the input file.
  • --tiff-file=<file> — the TIFF section gets written to <file> if present. the output file must be different from the input file.
  • --inputfile=<file> — the input file can also be given directly on the command line. if the file does not exist, then the file with extension .eps is tried. cute lil fallback behavior 🎀
  • --verbose — verbose messages. she's chatty, we love her 💬
  • --quiet — no messages are printed except for errors and warnings. silent but deadly (jk she's just polite) 🤫
  • --help — display help screen.
  • --man — prints manual page.
  • --version — print version identification and exit.

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

the following command extracts the PS section from file test.eps and stores the result in file test-ps.eps:

dosepsbin --eps-file test-ps.eps test.eps

ate that. periodt. 🔥

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Heiko Oberdiek, email: heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com

Copyright 2011-2012 by Heiko Oberdiek.

This library is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself (Perl Artistic License/GNU General Public License, version 2). 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The DOS EPS binary file format is described in section "5.2 Windows Metafile or TIFF":

Adobe Developer Support,
Encapsulated PostScript File Format Specification,
Version 3.0,
1992-05-01,
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/5002.EPSF_Spec.pdf

iykyk 📄✨

💜 HISTORY 💜

  • 2011/11/10 v1.0
    • First version. 🐣
  • 2011/12/05 v1.1
    • Typo fixed in help text (thanks Peter Breitenlohner). 🙏
  • 2012/03/22 v1.2
    • Fix in validation test for offset of PS section. 🛠️

and that's a wrap bestie!! 🎀 this page was brought to you by perl v5.8.1, dated 2012-03-22, version v1.2, living its best life under the DOSEPSBIN(1) manual name. go forth and extract those sections 💖✨🦋🌸💅

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