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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A Modest Proposal (IFF QuickDraw)
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Date: 14 May 88 20:25:51 GMT
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In <4607@super.upenn.edu>, ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar) writes:
 >	We don't have a standard for the transfer of "structured
 >graphics," that is, pictures described as sets of drawing commands 
 >rather than as bitmaps.  The primary motivation for such a standard 

and...

 > 	Such a standard should provide, at a minimum, the following:
 >		arbitrary text
 >		lines and patterned lines (arbitrary thickness)
 >		rectangles and filled rectangles
 >		ovals and filled ovals
 >		polygons and filled polygons
 >		support for color
 >		inclusion of bitmaps

and...

 >	By some coincidence, there already is such a standard: Apple
 >QuickDraw.  So called "PICT" images consist of, effectively, a script
 >recording a sequence of calls to the graphics library.  An additional

By further coincidence, PostScript is an established standard, fits all the
criteria, and in addition, is supported on a great many more machines than
'PICT'. Wouldn't it make more sense to use PostSript as the structured
graphics standard of choice? I think we are going to see some amazing
things this year at SIGGRAPH that will fit right in with this.

-larry

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