tboy: 

    Thanks for bringing that up! (I was just
looking at it the other night and it didn't even
occur to me that it was a PDF file in
LANDSCAPE mode!) The full version of
Acrobat retails for $350 so I think I need to
pass on that... However, I may try to "crack
the code" by examining Randall's PDF file (I
may be able to figure out how to edit the code
to produce landscape PDF's from
GhostView.) 

    Although this pertains to GhostView more
than Mayura Draw, I thought I would explain
in greater detail how to use GV with ANY
drawing program (even one that does not
save or export to EPS files). 

#1. You need to add a PostScript printer to
your Windows setup, configured to the FILE
output device (or port). I chose the HP
LaserJet 5P/5MP printer because it does
support PostScript Level 2 (and at 600dpi)
and is included on my Win95 CD. [Maybe
someone can find a printer driver that
supports 1200dpi and larger pages for higher
resolution... or maybe even color, too!] 

#2. If your drawing is in landscape mode,
save it so that you don't lose what you
already have and then rotate it 90 degrees and
select Portrait in the Page Setup dialog box
(or whatever it is called in your program).
You may need to scale the image to fit within
the printable area of the page (approx 1/5" all
the way around for the HP LJ5/5MP). [For a
lower resolution image do not rotate the
image to fit the Portrait page, but scale it
down to fit instead.] 

#3. You are now ready to print the image to a
file. Select the HP LJ5/MP (or whatever
printer driver you chose) as your active or
default printer and then get into the Options
screens. Under "PostScript" choose
"Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)". Under
"Device Options" turn OFF EconoMode and
Resolution Enhancement, and set Levels of
Gray to Standard. Under the "Graphics"
select 600dpi (you can ignore the half-tone
settings if your drawing is just black and
white). Make sure that under the "Paper" tab
you have chosen Portrait and then click on
OK (for the Options) and OK to print the file.

#4. You will be prompted to type in a
filename using the default .PRN extension
(and quite possibly in your Windows
directory). Change the directory as necessary
and then type in the filename you want to use,
with the extension of EPS. (If you already
have a few EPS files in that directory, you
can type in *.EPS and then [ENTER] to have
them listed in the file list box.) 

#5. Once the EPS file has been saved you can
then load it into GhostView. (If you get any
error messages, there may be a problem with
your PS printer driver.) Once the file has
loaded and the drawing is displayed
(sideways if the file was originally in
landscape mode), use the scroll bars to make
sure that the entire drawing is there. If it is,
then you can proceed with the next step. (If
not, you may need to scale the drawing down
a bit and try again.) 

#6. Under the File menu in GhostView,
choose "Print" and under Device, select
"bmpmono" for a black and white drawing
(or "bmp16", "bmp16m" or "bmp256" for
color or grayscale drawings). There is a box
below the "Device" list box that you need to
check "Print to file". And under Resolution
you will want to select 300dpi. [There is also
a device labelled "pdfwrite" that you can use
to create PDF files and "jpeg" for JPG files.] 

#7. Once you have selected the appropriate
options click OK which will bring up a
dialog box to type in the filename you wish to
save it as. Once a BMP file has been created
you should import it into a program like
JASC Image Commander (aka "Jasc IC")to
crop it size and rotate it if necessary before
converting it into a GIF file. (Jasc IC will
also load JPG files.) For PDF files you will
want to test them out using the Acrobat
Reader to see if they turned out okay.
(Landscape files will probably be displayed
sideways- which is okay if they are just to be
printed out.) 

Overview and Summary: 

    Landscape files are particularly tricky to
convert using the steps outlined above. In
many cases the drawing will be trunctated-
and even if the full image is displayed in
GhostView, I've had it chop off the right side
when exporting the drawing in BMP format.
In addition to Jasc IC, ACDSee32 is a great
shareware program for viewing and
managing your BMP, GIF and JPG images
(the shareware version will not print out your
images). Jasc IC's print menus include the
options to scale the image to fit a single page.
In testing out the various options for b&w
drawings, I got the best results with the
"bmpmono" device in GhostView and then
using Jasc IC to rotate and crop the image
before converting it into a GIF file. The PDF
files did not print out very well (the graphics
were okay but the fonts were "greeked" a
bit). 

Steve Ahola