Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!shelby!neon!pescadero.Stanford.EDU!philip From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: EPS uneditablility Message-ID: <1990Dec17.204329.15955@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 17 Dec 90 20:43:29 GMT References: Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Reply-To: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 12 In article , aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes: |> I have heard on this board that EPS files are non-editable. As my NeXT |> has not arrived yet, I haven't seen this for myself, but I find it |> rather difficult to believe. After all, isn't PostScript just a bunch |> of primitive drawing commands, like "draw a filled rectangle"? No, it's not that simple - PostScript is a fully-fledged programming language, complete with data structures, loops, procedures etc. It just so happens that its major purpose is placing marks on a page (or screen). -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu