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From: thender@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: CGM files
Summary: What will read a HP created CGM file.
Keywords: CGM
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.162609.21078@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 16:26:09 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Dear group,

  I was wondering if anyone could point me to a PC or Mac based
(preferably PC based)  application that can edit CGM files that
come from Starbase.  Currently we use Lotus Manuscript for our
publications and it seems to read, preview and print them just fine.
However, I have tried to edit them with Aston-Tates Applause II and
it won't seem to read them.  Does anyone know of an application
like Applause II or Harvard Graphics, etc. that we can bring a CGM
file into and edit with the nice detailing provided by these then
export it again.
  I have tried both the TOPS standard option(I think that is what it is)
and the default when creating the CGM file from starbase and it does
not seem to like it.
  Oh, by the way, I just tried to move a Applause II CGM file to the
HP and use the starbase utility to look at it and it worked perfect.  Any
ideas why the reverse won't work.
  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
Please send responses to:

hender@uicfdc.aae.uiuc.edu

or post to this group.  I read it pretty often.

Todd Henderson.

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