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From: rs@ukc.ac.uk (R.Shafiee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Reducing operators to lineto/rlineto
Keywords: Setdash,arc(n),fonts...
Message-ID: <6122@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Nov 90 16:58:54 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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Hiya,
	I hope this is a sensible question... :-)

	I/We have just purchaced a desktop publishing package to
	write short papers etc. Now it can import postscript files
	(i.e. graphs) from the mainframe but does not implement some
	of the PS operators. I was wondering if I could hand edit the
	files to make it acceptable to the DTP package. That is to
	implement the following operators by using only "rlineto" and
	"lineto" operators:-

1)	arc,arcn
2)	setdash
3)	fonts (so as to generate stroke and fill information only)

	Does anyone possess algorithms to do such a thing, or is it infact
	possible at all?

	I guess I would have to pass it through the interpreter to get the
	font stroking info??

	Any help would be greatly appreciated.