Using PSMERGE

The psmerge program writes its output to the standard output channel (stdout). This can be redirected to a file or piped straight to a printer queue; e.g.:

% psmerge picture.eps > printme.ps

or

% psmerge picture.eps | lpr -Pps_printer

The examples above simply converts an EPS file to a normal PostScript file, the only difference being that the normal PostScript file shifts the picture origin to the bottom left corner of the printable area on the printer. This is useful because if an EPS file is printed without conversion, the picture origin will be at the bottom left corner of the paper and on most printers this means that the bottom and left edges will lie outside the printable area and will be invisible.