Hello David,

thank you. Now that's interesting indeed. Is that method functional  
again?

A previous quick research yielded that it seemed to be deprecated/
unsupported back in 2001:

http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2001/4/20/24473

Felix

Am 15.12.2005 um 18:32 schrieb David Gelphman:

> Re:
> On Dec 15, 2005, at 6:17 AM, Nick Nallick wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 15, 2005, at 6:46 AM, Felix Schwarz wrote:
>>
>>> One question, though: Does "Chapter 17 Supporting PostScript and  
>>> EPS Data" cover the creation of EPS data or "just" the conversion  
>>> from (E)PS to PDF data?
>>>
>>> For I already know how to do the latter, but not the first :-)
>>
>> I believe it covers the use of EPS in Quartz.  Specifically the  
>> use of a CGImageRef with an EPS data provider and the conversion  
>> to PDF.  Unfortunately Quartz doesn't support EPS data creation.
>
> Nick is correct, however the book does mention that Cocoa apps can  
> create EPS data from their NSView drawing and provides references  
> to the related information. This is documented in:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
> ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSView.html#//apple_ref/occ/
> instm/NSView/dataWithEPSInsideRect:
>
> Hope this helps,
> David

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