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From: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: ASCII PostScript --> PICT? (probably dumb question...)
Message-ID: <1991May11.094511.30632@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 14:45:11 GMT
Organization: KU Molecular Modeling
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I've never been (nor wanted to be) a PostScript 'power user,' having
been content to let Mac apps. pretty much do their own thing.

Now, I am in a situation where I will have a program running on
multiple Unix workstations that emits ASCII PostScript files of a
pretty simple-minded character.  (Molecular data structures get
shoved through either a PS or an HPGL filter--the PS filter apparently
doesn't do TOO much more gee-whiz stuff than the HPGL filter.)

I would like to be able to download the ASCII files to a Mac, run
them through an application that can convert them to some common
Mac-compatible high-resolution screen-compatible format (presumably
some flavor of PICT), then edit and gee-whizify them in a graphics
editor and re-PostScript them.

Is there software (commercial is OK) that does PS-to-PICT?

Christopher Gunn	Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN	Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
913-864-4428 or -4495	University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS  66045