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From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Graphics Editor Using PostScript?
Message-ID: <1989Nov16.055737.14772@nueces.cactus.org>
Date: 16 Nov 89 05:57:37 GMT
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rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:

>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

>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.

Also, Illustrator is available (or will be quite soon) for the NeXT machine if you
would like a decent unix machine. X is forthcoming from MIT if you need to run X clients
as well. If you don't know already, the NeXT lives and breathes PostScript.

Chris Whatley

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