why i can not convert gmf file to eps file

[chengs]

Matthias Munnich，

Thank you very much!


On May 1, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Matthias Munnich wrote:

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> Most likely the Windows compiler for grads uses 2 bytes for short
> integers (AFAIK Linux's gcc compiler uses 4 bytes) in the metafiles
> making the formats  incompatible.  Use   PC-GRADS's gxeps to convert
> to EPS.
>
> ... Matt
>
> PS: Don't attach metafiles.  Probably only a handful of people on this
> list can make sense of them.  If necessary these people will ask you
> to email them.
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> chengs wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I now meet a problem about gxeps command.
>>
>> The attached file is generated by PC-GRADS 1.8. Now I want to
>> convert the file from gmf format to eps format. When I use "gxeps"
>> command to convert the file on Linux OS, it says:
>>
>> Fatal error: Invalid command "-1025" found in
>> metafile"figure6.gmf". Is "figure6.gmf" really a GrADS (v1.5 or
>> higher) metafile?
>>
>> Does anybody have any idea about this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance. ************************************** Guangshan
>> Chen Center for Climatic Research University of Wisconsin-Madison
>> 1225 W.Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 USA
>>
>> phone : 608/890-0907 fax : 608/263-4190 email :
>> gchen9 at wisc.edu
>
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**************************************
Guangshan Chen
Center for Climatic Research
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1225 W.Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706  USA

phone : 608/890-0907
fax      : 608/263-4190
email  : gchen9 at wisc.edu