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From: bame@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Paul Bame)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: breaking up polygons with holes, Arc/Info, Maps, cartography
Message-ID: <7090002@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 91 20:02:38 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.203027.21926@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
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> 	At Energy Mines and Resources Canada we make maps and print
> maps. The software used to digitize maps is called Arc/Info. Arc/Info
> produces Postscript output. The polygons which make up these maps can
> be very large (~4000 vertices). In order to print these maps, a
> printing system called Scitex  (no relation to TeX or LaTeX) is used.
> Scitex uses another format (it is not important) than Postscript, but
> comes with a Postscript-to-Scitex interpreter. Herein lies the problem:
> the interpreter cannot handle pathlengths larger that 1500. It dies when
> we try to push through our large polygons.

If you get desperate, try GNU P*stscript aka Ghostscript.  It can run on
Unix boxes and other machines which have lots of RAM and either already
accepts huge paths or could be convinced to do so.

			-Paul Bame
			bame@fc.sde.hp.com	N0KCL