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From: rph@cs.brown.edu
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Subject: Plotting Magic/Cif (summary)
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Date: 30 Nov 89 20:33:53 GMT
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Plotting...

Here's a summary of plotting programs people have written
me about:  thanks to all those that let me know about them

cif2ps  version 2 (Gordon W. Ross, MITRE):
	a much better version of cif2ps, extending the code
	of cif2ps (Marc Lesure, Arizona State University) and
	cifp (Arthur Simoneau, Aerospace Corp).  It features
	command line options for depth and formatting.  Can
	extend one plot over several pages (up to 5 by 5, or
	25 pages). By default, uses a mixture of postscript gray fill
	and cross-hatching.  

	It was posted to comp.sources.misc,
	and is available by ftp from uunet.uu.net(192.48.96.2) as:
	comp.sources.misc/volume8/cif2ps.Z.

flea    Edward Allen Luke, Mississippi State University
	Does line drawings with crosshatching for postscript,
	versatec, and hp plotters.  Many options (depth, label
	depth, scale, path, format...) and probably easy to
	modify for other devices.

	Available by ftp from zeus.ee.msstate.edu in 
	pub/flea.tar.Z.

vic     Part of the U. of Washington's Northwest Lab, for Integrated
	Systems Cad Tool Release (previously UW/NW VLSI Consortium).
	Does postscript and HP pen plotters.  
	Only available as part of the package, and I haven't tried it.
	Contact Vicky Palm (palm@june.cs.washington.edu) for more
	information on the entire set of tools.

	

As for plotting in color, the most inventive solution was doing a
screen dump of a magic job and plotting that (billed as "the poor
man's solution").  If we do get something something for color hear,
adding to flea looks like the best bet (uness someone beats us to it).

Thanks again for the responses.

	     - Richard
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