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From: izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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Date: 14 Dec 90 01:56:29 GMT
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In article <1990Dec14.000607.16279@d.cs.okstate.edu> 
	minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:
>Does anyone know of a popular graphics editor
>that was designed around a specific file format?

Adobe Illustrator with the Adobe Illustrator file format.
This format is public (although copyrighted, anyone can obtain it
for free).
[Sigh, why does it take for Adobe so long to release a NeXT version?]

This is probably the best graphics file format for NeXT, because
files are already in PostScript or EPS, or they can be made into
one by prepending several proc set definitions.  And the graphics 
can be edited by AI or other programs which understands the format.
The specification has grouping operators which can define editable
objects within a file.

I hope that all NeXT programs, such as Mathematica, TopDraw
will be able to produce graphics files in AI format.

You can get the file format specification by sending a mail to
"adobe!ps-file-server@decwrl.dec.com" with a single line
message

send Documents AIformat.ps.Zba

This can be in the Subject: line or in the body of the message
with empty subject line.
(Don't put it in both.)

(This is a PostScript file compressed and binary-to-ascii encoded
by 'btoa', so you need 'atob' to decode it.  This again
can be obtained from ps-file-server by "send Programs btoa.shar".)

Izumi Ohzawa, izumi@violet.berkeley.edu