.TH PSRIP 1 "perl 5.005, patch 03" "15/Dec/1999" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
.SH "NAME"
psrip \- extracts images from postscript-files
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
psrip [\fB\-d\fR \fIdir\fR] \fIpsfile(s)\fR
.PP
extract images in \fIpsfile(s)\fR into current directory
or \fIdir\fR if given.
.SH "Examples"
psrip foil.ps
  Extract images from foil.ps into current directory.
.PP
psrip \fB\-d\fR images foil1.ps foil2.ps TeX/*.ps
  Extract images of these ps-files into directory \fIimages\fR.
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
The script saves the lines between \fI'%%BeginDocument: name'\fR
and \fI'%%EndDocument'\fR to a new file named \fIdir/name\fR.
.SH "BUGS"
If there is no 'BoundingBox' specified in the extracted image you
have to insert it by hand. E.g. for DIN\-a4 size:
 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842
.SH "AUTHOR"
Christian Lackas <\fIdelta@clackas.de\fR>, 10 December 1999.
.PP
This tool is dedicated to Nikolay 'Snake' Sturm.
.PP
Thanks to Rolf Niepraschk for his help in publishing an bug 
reporting.
.SH "LICENSE"
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.