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	Hello,

	In spite of you having had limited luck with Ghostscript,
it is still your best bet.

	Make sure you use a recent version (5.10 or later). Use
the tiff24nc device. This will generate HUGE images, but that
about the only tiff output device that works fine. The current
GPL version is something like 3.33, but doesn't work very well.

	Your command line could look like this:

gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiff24nc -r100 -sOutputFile=out.tiff in.ps

	Change your resolution to suit your needs (100 dpi in the
example). 

	This is under Unix BTW, but it should work the same under
Windows, etc. Gs is very portable.


	I've hardly ever had problems with gs. When it doesn't work,
your input Postscript file is generally corrupt and wouldn't print
anyway. My only complain with it is it's hard to compile, but eh,
what can you say, it's a life-saver program.

	Cheers.

  ___Hugues Talbot, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences __
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