Starting with version 1.08f9 pstill is able to create not only PDF files but
writes new & flat PS or EPS files too. This feature is very handy if you want to
'normalize' (flatten) a PostScript file as pstill only uses a handful operators
in the resulting PS. This makes the format very suitable for parsing and thus
converting PS to arbitary vector or bitmap formats (in fact pstill's PDF back-
end is just a parser/converter for this intermediate format)

Using the '-m e' and '-E pagenum' options you can export any page from a PS
file into a placeable EPS file. You want to edit the BoundingBox later to 
finetune the resulting EPS, see the Adobe Red Book or various PS resource on
the net for more information.

* Why does the resulting PS print in Courier?

Use option -m P or -m E to include fonts as subsetted versions

* Why is my EPS empty, I did say 'pstill -m e input.ps -o output.eps' but 
  nothing is created?

For EPS generation you need to tell pstill the page number you want to have
extracted, so add an option -E 1 for the first page or -E 2 for the second, 
and so on...

The complete call reads

pstill -m e -E 1 input.ps -o output.eps

* Some parts of the graphics looks inverted of strange in the new PS files

For the moment pstill does not map the transfer function to the resulting PS
and this may cause this problem for a few PS files. 

Running PStill with option -2 (PS Level 2) may fix this problem.


