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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Desperately seeking library which emits trivial postscript
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Date: 29 Apr 91 15:01:56 GMT
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In article <32295@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>I desperately need to do plots where the screen contains exactly
>three kinds of objects:

>       - dot (one pixel)
>       - line (specified as (x1, y1, x2, y2)
>       - text (specified as (x, y), font, pointsize and string).

>I know no postscript as of right now.  Is there a sugar-coated
>library whereby I can readily do this?  I can readily imagine a
>library where I would issue calls in a certain coordinate system
>(which I have to figure out) and nice postscript files would get
>written.
>C or Pascal are fine by me; I can also hand-translate fortran.
>Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu

I have a set of Pascal routines that generate simple PostScript graphics as you
want (automatic translation to C failed for some reason).  They are available
now by anonymous ftp from ncifcrf.gov in pub/delila.  The program is in
dops.p.Z and the demo file is in dops.demo.Z.  You will have to make a routine
to modify font and pointsize on the fly.

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov