6.12 EPS Printing

Users can produce an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file that can be imported into applications such as Aldus PageMaker with any Windows application that prints using the PostScript driver. This is done by selecting the Print to EPS File option from the PostScript Options dialog box, and then printing. The output of the print job is redirected into the PostScript-only EPS file specified in the Options dialog box. No alternate representation of the image (for example, metafile or TIFF image) is produced by the driver.

By default, the bounding rectangle is the whole page (that is, the imageable area of the page). If the printing application issues a SET_BOUNDS escape, that rectangle will be used instead of the whole page. Therefore, before printing a page, every application that might possibly have its output sent to an EPS file should issue a SET_BOUNDS escape with the bounding rectangle of all the output.