Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: EDITABLE graphics translation posting response Message-ID: Date: 3 Dec 90 12:52:20 GMT References: <1042@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <12169@milton.u.washington.edu> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs-server.gac.edu In-reply-to: wjs@milton.u.washington.edu's message of 3 Dec 90 05:27:17 GMTLines: 25 In article <12169@milton.u.washington.edu> wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley) writes: Glenn Reid (ex of Adobe, now Head Cheese of RightBrain software) told me in e-mail that Adobe Illustrator (for the Mac) ships with a little utility called "DrawOver" which changes PICT into PS that Illustrator can edit. DISCLAIMER: Any misinformation in this post is my fault, not Glenn's. Well, maybe. The question is: Does it import it to _editable_ postscript? You can import a .eps file into various drawing tools on the NeXT (Draw, I think, and probably TopDraw, at the least), but you cannot _EDIT_ it. You can just resize, possibly rotate and skew. But not edit in the sense of going in and changing the size or position of a single element within the image . . . I'm not sure if the last line in the first quoted paragraph means editable in the true sense or only editable as a complete object . . . Please clear it up (since I was one of the lucky ones to start this debate :-). -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer (Stuart) GAC Undergrad (Horrid. Simply Horrid. I mean the work!)