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From: yount@fox.ece.cmu.edu (Charles Robert Yount)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Desperately seeking library which emits trivial postscript
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Date: 29 Apr 91 20:11:34 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu's message of 26 Apr 91 03:35:12 GMT

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.

   Thanks!

	   -ans.


GNU has a set of graphics utilities available via anonymous ftp from
qed.rice.edu as /pub/graphics.tar.Z.  Along with replacements for the
Unix utilities plot and graph, it contains a very good postscript
library in C to draw circles, lines, text, dots, etc., etc.  As a
bonus, any PS file generated with these utilities is editable with
idraw! 

Chuck Yount, CMU