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From: flitter@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Flitter)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Query: binary CGM <-> text CGM
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Date: 20 Mar 90 12:07:56 GMT
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   CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) is an ANSI and ISO standard described by
   ANSI X3.122-1986. It is also a Federal Information Processing Standard. Just
   for general info it's not a Lotus and wordprocessing format.
   Anyway, there is a public domain program called GPLOT which supports the
   binary encoding and the clear text encoding. I don't have the internet
   address handy right now but you can get the program by anonymous ftp. I'll
   see if I can find the IP address and I'll post it. As a side note I wouldn't
   trust GPLOT's conversion capabilities to much. I found it to be somewhat
   dissapointing.
   If you want commercial software, Lyle Henderson, the document editor of the
   CGM standard, has a company called Henderson Software located in California
   near LA. His company makes CGM products and they are probably pretty
   reliable. You might look him up if you really need reliability.