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From: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Graphics Editor Using PostScript?
Message-ID: <3613@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 89 11:25:53 GMT
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In article <779@tahoma.UUCP>, gsds@tahoma.UUCP (K.C.Babb) writes:
> This may be a bit far out, but is there such a thing as a graphics
> editor which stores/retrieves the edited images using a PostScript
> file?  I've heard of PostScript-displaying utilities, so it must be
> possible to convert a page discription for an on-screen presentation.
> What I'm looking for is something which would read the PostScript
> file for a page, put it on the screen, allow the user to select/
> modify/add items to the picture, and store it back in PostScript,
> which could then easily be hardcopied via laser printer.
> 
> Any such product would be a start, but specifically we'd like
> something which will work on an Apollo.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any useful info.
> 
> Only from the mind (?) of
> 
> KCB
> 

You may want to look at Adobe Illustrator, a PostScript graphic design program
for the Macintosh or MS-DOS under Windows.  Illustrator file are in PostScript;
the only catch is that it cannot read an arbitrary PostScript program.  Conform
to a particular (documented) syntax which makes it easy for the application to
parse it.  Having the file format open and readable makes for very easy
conversions, automatic generation of images, etc.

						Richard Silverman