Overview

pstoedit translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats.

Supported Formats

Currently pstoedit can generate the following major formats:

• Tgif .obj format (for tgif version >= 3)
• .fig format for xfig
• pdf - Adobe’s Portable Document Format
• gnuplot format
• Flattened PostScript (with or without Bezier curves)
• DXF - CAD exchange format
• LWO - LightWave 3D
• RIB - RenderMan
• RPL - Real3D
• Java 1 or Java 2 applet
• Idraw format (in fact a special form of EPS that idraw can read)
• Tcl/Tk
• HPGL
• AI (Adobe Illustrator) (based on ps2ai.ps - not a real pstoedit driver - see notes below and manual)
• Windows Meta Files (WMF) (Windows 9x/NT only)
• Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (Windows 9x/NT only)
• OS/2 meta files (OS/2 only)
• PIC format for troff/groff
• MetaPost format for usage with TeX/LaTeX
• LaTeX2e picture
• Kontour
• GNU Metafile (plotutils / libplot)
• Skencil
• Mathematica
• via ImageMagick to any format supported by ImageMagick
• SWF

Besides these some further very special formats are supported. See the
pstoedit.htm for a complete list of available
drivers.

The following formats are available as additional plugins on a
shareware basis. See http://www.pstoedit.net/plugins/
for more details.

• (Frame)Maker Intermediate Format (MIF)
• CGM Format (both binary and textual)
• SVG - scalable vector format. One candidate of the W3C
  for a web standard for vector drawings. See http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
  for more details.
• Better Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (supports curves
  and compound pathes and does more accurate text
  formatting) (Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista only)
• RTF (MS Word) (Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista only)

Use PStoEdit directly by GsView

PStoEdit has a DLL which can be used directly by GSview.
PStoEdit can be used from GSview 2.8 or later, using “Edit | Convert to vector format”.
To use PStoEdit from GSview on Windows or OS/2, unzip the PStoEdit files into c:\ghostgum\pstoedit (assuming you installed GSview to the default location c:\ghostgum\gsview).

This tool builds a PowerPoint file from a directory containing JPEG images. If used together with a tool such as GhostScript, the PowerPoint file can be built from a Postscript or PDF source.

Overview:

This tool creates a PowerPoint file from a directory containing JPEG
images. 

Setup and Operation:

Download and unzip the runtime distribution on your
system.  On a system where Visual Basic 6 or later is installed, or where
other UW CSE tools have been installed, no setup is likely to be necessary.  If in
doubt, try running the executable Img2PPT.exe.  If errors appear, run setup.  Of course, you also
need to have PowerPoint installed on the target system.  The tool was originally
developed for use with PowerPoint 9 included in Office 2000.

The tool’s main dialog provides the user the opportunity to specify the size
and position that the images will take when placed in slides.  Both are
specified in points. (There are 72 points per inch).  The position
coordinates place the upper left corner of the image relative to the upper left
corner of the slide.  Increasing coordinates move the image to the right
and down.

When the user clicks on the button labeled: “Select image directory and
create PPT,” the tool prompts for the directory containing the
images.  It is assumed that the image names in the directory are
exactly ”image1.jpg .. imageN.jpg”.  The tool will create a slide
in the new PowerPoint file for each image.  The image numbers must be
continuous, and must begin with 1.

From Postscript Source

In one common scenario, the original material is in postscript
format.  Here, the JPEG images would be created by Ghostscript before the
Img2PPT tool is used.  Ghostscript for most platforms is available from the
Ghostscript home page.  
With the Aladdin 6.01 precompiled Win32 version, JPEG images were created by
placing the postscript file in the target directory, and running:

  gswin32c -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=image%d.jpg filename.ps

Rotating images:  If the images are
created in landscape orientation, they will need to be rotated before the
PowerPoint file is created.  One way to automate this operation is to write
a script to run jpegtran.exe with each file.  Jpegtran.exe is one of
the jpeg utilities included in the free “Jpegsr6b” distribution from www.ijg.org.

from: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/tools/Img2PPT/