Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!ncifcrf!fcs260c2!toms From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: WYSIWYG Postscripty editor for SGI Iris Message-ID: <2208@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> Date: 29 May 91 15:30:53 GMT References: Sender: news@ncifcrf.gov Organization: NCI Supercomputer Facility, Frederick, MD Lines: 24 In article eesnyder@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder) writes: >I am looking for a WYSIWYG Postscript editor for the SGI Iris. I am familiar with the fig and xfig programs for the Sun. These produce a special file which can be converted to PostScript by a program called fig2dev. Unfortunately fig is not really working with PostScript, so arbitrary rotation, scaling etc can not be done. Text is a fixed size and is NOT the same on the printer as on the screen. A real pain. I must say that the interface for fig is really nice. The xfig version no longer has scaling, which makes it impossible to do fine adjustments to the figure. I can't believe that they dropped this feature. So I too would like to know about a good PostScript editor. The ones I've seen bomb. There goes the drawing! This discouraged me from ever using them again! One of the bombers is part of GoodNeWS. Maybe those folks have fixed it by now. Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov