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Why don my desktop PC applications recognize the preview portion of IDL EPSI files?

April 26, 2017applications desktop files IDL pc portion preview recognize

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Why don my desktop PC applications recognize the preview portion of IDL EPSI files?

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By Troy Klein, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Quoting the IDL version 4.0 online help for the PREVIEW keyword, “Set this keyword to add a ‘device independent screen preview’ to the PostScript output file, in encapsulated PostScript interchange format (EPSI). Use this keyword only with encapsulated output. Many, but certainly not all, desktop publishing and word processing programs will display this screen preview when the file is imported into a document.” The EPSI format is not compatible with some of the more popular Windows and Macintosh applications. Windows applications expect the preview image to be in TIFF format and Macintosh applications expect the preview image to be in PICT format and in the resource fork of the EPS file. I have found the EPSI file to be compatable with Framemaker for UNIX/X windows. There are two workarounds available for Mac users and two for Windows users, all are similar. If you are using IDL on a UNIX machine, there is a package available (as of 8/2/