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From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Public domain Graphic Ed
Summary: 'xpic'
Message-ID: <2631@ics.COM>
Date: 25 Aug 89 12:12:26 GMT
References: <"890824080047.76200.2050.EHL15-1"@CompuServe.COM<
Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., Cambridge MA
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In article <"890824080047.76200.2050.EHL15-1"@CompuServe.COM<, 76200.2050@compuserve.COM (Joseph Pistritto) writes:
<        Looking for public domain sources (or pointers to commercially
< licensable sources), for an object oriented graphic editor for Xwindows
< environment.  (An editor that would produce a list of objects, say
< rectangles, lines, etc. rather than a bitmap).  HP ships an editor called
< 'xgedit', but without source.  Does anyone know how to get source for it?

I just found Mark Moraes's xpic extremely useful. It produces lists of
objects which are post-processed into pic or ps or tpic format.

The source recently was sent through comp.sources.x.
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