Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Carey R. Murphey) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Graphics Editor Using PostScript? Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 89 18:16:40 GMT References: <779@tahoma.UUCP> Sender: root@rice.edu Distribution: na Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University Lines: 38 In-reply-to: gsds@tahoma.UUCP's message of 9 Nov 89 17:13:29 GMT >>>>> On 9 Nov 89 17:13:29 GMT, gsds@tahoma.UUCP (K.C.Babb) said: KCB> This may be a bit far out, but is there such a thing as a graphics KCB> editor which stores/retrieves the edited images using a PostScript KCB> file? I've heard of PostScript-displaying utilities, so it must be KCB> possible to convert a page discription for an on-screen presentation. KCB> What I'm looking for is something which would read the PostScript KCB> file for a page, put it on the screen, allow the user to select/ KCB> modify/add items to the picture, and store it back in PostScript, KCB> which could then easily be hardcopied via laser printer. KCB> Any such product would be a start, but specifically we'd like KCB> something which will work on an Apollo. The idraw graphics editor stores and retrieves drawing in a format which is postscript. It is not a `postscript' interpreter or editor since it uses information embedded in the comments to store it's own representation of the drawing. Idraw is one of the applications distributed as part of a C++ language class library called InterViews. There is a mailing list for the discussion of InterViews, and you can send mail to interviews-request@interviews.stanford.edu to subscribe or get more information. You will need a C++ compiler and X11R3 to install it. Although there are binaries (executables) for idraw available, I have not seen any for specificly for the Apollo. I wish there were, several people here would like to use it on their Apollos also. You can get InterViews via anonymous ftp from interviews.stanford.edu (36.22.0.175). The sun3, sun4, mips and other idraw executables are there. All you have to do is grab the exeutable and manual page an run it --- there are no other supporting files to install. I use idraw to generate figures for talks, thesis and papers. It has been _very_ useful. -- Rich@rice.edu