Above is page preview only. Download the PDF or EPS version for high quality printing.
Following is a detailed description on how the KnotPlot script was used to generate the files on this page. Example shown is for letter size paper. See the note (right) about printing to A4 paper. If you're only generating an EPS file for inclusion in another document, then you don't need to worry about setting the pagesize.
Run KnotPlot in non-graphics mode to generate the EPS file.
knotplot -nog < Merge6.kps
One could instead run KnotPlot in graphics mode and enter the following command into the KnotPlot Command Window
<Merge6.kps
We now have the file Merge6.eps which could be printed directly on a PostScript printer. For printing to a non-PostScript printer, generate a PDF file Merge6.pdf from the EPS file Merge6.eps using Ghostscript.
# Note: enter the following three lines on one command line gs -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sPAPERSIZE=letter -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=Merge6.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f Merge6.eps
The remainder of this example shows how the preview image seen above was created. This is useful for including an image on a web page or in a presentation. Printing the EPS or PDF file will give much higher quality than printing the preview image. These files, Merge6.eps and Merge6.pdf, as well as their counterparts for A4 paper, Merge6_a4.eps and Merge6_a4.pdf, can be downloaded using the links in the right hand panel on this page.
# run Ghostscript to generate a temporary PPM file # Note: enter the following two lines on one command line gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sPAPERSIZE=letter -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=Merge6.ppm -r200 -f Merge6.eps # scale it down using ImageMagick convert command convert -resize 600x Merge6.ppm Merge6S.ppm # reduce the number of distinct colours and create the gif convert -colors 32 Merge6S.ppm Merge6.gif # delete temporary files /bin/rm Merge6.ppm Merge6S.ppm