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Re: Batch Converting EPS files
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Posted by John Dowdell on November 26, 1996 at 11:00:33:
In Reply to: Batch Converting EPS files posted by Dale Baglo on October 25, 1996 at 03:29:09:
Hi Dale,
FreeHand 7 for Mac and Win includes scripting abilities which are tuned to batch manipulation. On the Mac you can use AppleScript to drive FreeHand 7; on both Mac and PC you can use the included Java-based Macromedia Script Editor to drive the drawing tool.
FreeHand offers intrinsic reads and writes of the various flavors of Illustrator formats, as well as the EPS formats expected by Macs, PCs, and Photoshop, as well as many other formats such as multi-page PDF files.
I believe, although I've not tested it empirically, that you should be able to modify the existing "ConvertToFH7" Java script to have it save multiple files into the desired EPS formats. You can then save this out as a Java Xtra into the FH7 Xtras folder, and this new extension will show up in the Xtras menu of FreeHand. (Be sure to check "Enable Java scripts" in the general prefs to enable this.)
You're right that DeBabelizer focuses on converting pixel-based formats. I've not tried the utilities that Al describes, myself. I don't know whether you have FreeHand 7 yet yourself, but if you do, then give the above a shot... seems like it would do the trick!
Regards,
John Dowdell
Macromedia Tech Support
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