10 PostScript to Asymptote

The excellent PostScript editor pstoedit (version 3.42 or later; available from http://pstoedit.net) includes an Asymptote backend. Unlike virtually all other pstoedit backends, this driver includes native clipping, even-odd fill rule, and PostScript subpath support.

For example, try:

asy -V /usr/share/doc/asymptote/examples/venn.asy

pstoedit -f asy venn.eps test.asy
asy -V test

If the line widths aren't quite correct, try giving pstoedit the -dis option. If the fonts aren't typeset correctly, try giving pstoedit the -dt option.

Full image support can be added to the Asymptote backend with the patch pstoedit-3.42asy.patch. Denoting the location of the Asymptote source directory by ASYMPTOTE_SOURCE, one can install this patch with the commands (as the UNIX root user):

tar -zxf pstoedit-3.42.tar.gz
cd pstoedit-3.42
patch -p1 < ASYMPTOTE_SOURCE/patches/pstoedit-3.42asy.patch
autoconf
./configure --prefix=/usr
make install