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From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,comp.text
Subject: Re: and nroff (Re: Drawing Programs, Printers . . . )
Summary: Picasso is a Pic generator
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.160752.16873@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 16:07:52 GMT
References: <5237@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <1181@hico2.UUCP> <1991Mar8.193253.15847@eci386.uucp>
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To confirm Greg Woods' conjecture:
Picasso is an X Window System (OPEN LOOK GUI) application
for creating pic files or PostScript. You use the mouse
to draw rectangles, circles, ellipses, text, etc.;
alternatively, (or alternately for that matter) you can
edit the ASCII file directly as you would with pic.
Picasso has enhanced basic pic considerably (color,
gray scale, rotation, object scaling, etc.) so it's not
always possible to stream Picasso files back through pic.

Picasso is sold as a source product by USL. Binary versions
are currently available only inside AT&T. It is a tribute to
the OPEN LOOK developers that Picasso has successfully been
installed with no extra effort on our part on the Sun 4,
AT&T 6386, AT&T 3B2, Pyramid/AT&T System 7000.

A batch ("box; arrow; circle") version of Picasso is included
with the DWB 3.1 release.

For those familiar with xcip and cip, think of Picasso as
cip with color and all the bugs fixed.

We'd be delighted to work with any VAR that wants to distribute
binary (hint, hint, hint, ...)