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From: cunniff@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ross Cunniff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Needs Ideas for a Graphics Project
Message-ID: <9010003@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 16:09:15 GMT
References: <1989Oct5.230216.12164@dvinci.usask.ca>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> | Or creating a new IFF format for structured
> | graphics and PostScript?  

> Bingo!  We have a winner!  Spec out an IFF structured graphics format
> (perhaps based loosly on PostScript), and write a simple drawing program
> that reads, writes and edits them.  Also write a dumb viewer to let
> you view the files in any resolution and a program to convert them
> to PostScript.  If you're really ambitious, package up the routines
> in a shared library.  Release it all into the public domain and let
> nature take its course.  :-)

Umm, it's already been done.  The IFF format DR2D is a structured graphics
format that supports polygons, splines, groups, object-oriented fill patterns,
line weights, line patterns,text, etc.  There will (soon?) be a released
product that reads and writes it.  I will post the latest version of the
format to comp.sys.amiga.tech.

> | I would like expression my thanks for any help.  I post here because the
> | AMIGA community tends to be innovative and creative bunch of people.

> If you could create a structured graphic IFF format, and code that
> developers could use to read and display it, you would be doing an
> invaluable service.  If it was a good standard, you'd be a hero.

*Blush*  Of course, I'm biased :-)

> Stuart Ferguson

				Ross Cunniff
				Hewlett-Packard Colorado Languages Lab
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