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From: cctr114@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: cgm -> postscript Summary
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.144450.86@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 21 Feb 91 02:44:18 GMT
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Thank you to those who replied to my cgm -> psotscript question. Here is
a summary to date.

Bill Rea
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>There is a free program from the Pittsburgh Computing Center called GPLOT.  It
>can read in CGM files and output to POSTSCRIPT.  They have versions of it for
>UNIX and VMS.
>
>It is available via anonymous FTP.  The IP address is calpe.psc.edu.
>
>Paul Kramer
>University of Nebraska-Lincoln
>Lincoln, Nebraska USA


>Version 3.00 of NCAR Graphics (which began shipping in January
>of 1990) contained CGM to B&W PostScript conversion.  Version
>3.01 which will begin shipping this month contains a CGM to
>color PostScript capability.  Unfortunately the graphcaps
>involved will not work with pre-3.00 versions of our package.
>
>For ordering information, contact 
>
>  Graphics Software Distribution
>  SCD
>  NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
>  PO Box 3000
>  Boulder, CO  80307-3000
>  (303) 497-1201
>
>Fred Clare
>fred@ncar.ucar.edu