I used to use the Starlink "psmerge" utility (which is different to
the unix psmerge command) - there is info at: http://star-
www.rl.ac.uk/star/dvi/sun164.htx/sun164.html

No idea whether it's even possible to obtain it anymore though, since
Starlink is no more, as far as I am aware...

naomi.


On Jan 24, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Eric Jensen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A colleague of mine is trying to composite several postscript figures
> into a single four-panel figure, and to add some basic annotation (a
> few arrows and a little text); the ultimate destination of the
> composite figure is in a Latex document. Since Adobe Illustrator can
> handle postscript, this seemed like it might be a good way to go.
> But this has proved unexpectedly problematic, as follows:
>
> - The output .eps file from Illustrator doesn't work correctly in
> Latex; running dvips on the .dvi file results in an error: "expected
> to see %%EndBinary at end of data"
>
> - The Latex/dvips error can be fixed by running the file through
> eps2eps, but the result is a file that is 3 times as big as
> Illustrator's output eps file, and significantly bigger than the sum
> of the input postscript files.
>
> The output eps file is saved with no embedded preview, so that's not
> the problem. The nature of the errors suggests to me that somehow
> Illustrator is saving some of the image data from the original
> postscript files (one of which is a bitmap) in some compressed format
> in its output postscript file, but I can't see how to tell it not to
> do that, nor why the output file is so big compared to the inputs.
>
> Any suggestions about a workaround here, or a better way to combine
> and annotate figures, would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
>
>