INSTALLATION 
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* Prerequisites
you need:
 - perl (an interpreter for the perl language, see http://www.perl.com)
 - ghostscript (an interpreter/raster image processor 
                for the PostScript language,
                see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
 - maybe an ANSI-C compiler if you don't use Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix,
   HP-UX or Windows 9x/NT/2000. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I tried
   to write a bbox equivalent in perl and it was terribly slow. Therefore
   I stick to C, because of much better performance.

* How to install

  Please check that you have working
  perl and ghostscript packages.

  Linux/UNIX-based platform
  =========================
  1.) install bbox

  If a bbox binary is included for your platform you simply move it
  into any directory of the system search path. Otherwise, you have
  to compile bbox.c first by invoking 
  cc -o bbox bbox.c. 
  Please make sure that bbox is executable (chmod a+x bbox).
  If you already have a working perl and a working ghostscript, you're 
  finished here, else you have to install them first.

  2.) install ps2eps
  On Unix platforms you simply move the perl script ps2eps into
  a directory which is included in the system or personal search 
  path (e.g., /usr/local/bin, $home/bin). Please make sure that
  ps2eps is executable (chmod a+x ps2eps).

  Windows-based platform
  ======================
  Use the command line interpreter:
  Copy bbox.exe from bin/win32/ directory into a directory that is 
  in your's or the system's search path for executables. Please try 
  to invoke bbox -h afterwards.

  The best possibility is to use associated file types under 
  Windows NT/2000/XP:
  1.) rename ps2eps to ps2eps.pl and 
  2.) SET PATHEXT=.pl;%PATHEXT% or use the 
      settings -> control panel -> system -> "advanced" tab -> environment variables
      and edit the PATHEXT entry accordingly.
  3.) change in ps2eps.pl 
      $ghostscriptname= "gs"; to 
      $ghostscriptname= "gswin32c";
  4.) then simply typing ps2eps should invoke ps2eps correctly 
      (ensure that ps2eps.bat is not in your path)

  Another option is to perform step 3.) only and call perl directly:
  perl ps2eps ...
  
  If this does not work you could try to use the ps2eps.bat instead of 
  ps2eps and copy it into a location included in your system search
  path for binaries. The script assumes that you have "gswin32c" as 
  postscript interpreter in your path. Please note that the .bat file 
  can only handle up to 9 arguments/files at once. However, ps2eps
  can perform wildcard expansion now on its own.

UPDATES
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Possibly you can find the newest version at the
following URL:
http://www.ipv6.tm.uka.de/~bless/ps2eps
