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From: rb@cci632.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
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Subject: Re: Make a million!!!
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Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 10:17:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 27 10:17:36 1986
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Summary: PostScript interpreters.

In article <294@rtech.UUCP> daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
>I bet there would be a bunch of places that would pay real $$ if they
>could do design drawings (data flow diagrams, etc...) on a Mac, then
>ship them up to the UNIX box for merging with the rest of the troff'd
>documentation.  All you'd need is something to translate a MacDraw
>document to pic input and you'd be in business.

It has been suggested that one can write a PostScript interpreter
(something like forth) that converts to UNIX plot(3) or plot(5)
commands.  The postscript can be generated by setting printer
to appletalk and hitting the "command-F"(?).

I believe the Superplot package posted to net.sources also
included some postscript interfaces.

It is also possible to convert tektronics format into MacDraw
via two programs.

You're right, the attractiveness of Mac<->Unix transfers is an
extremely lucrative potential market.

Anything else available in this arena?