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From: tws@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Thomas Sarver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal (IFF QuickDraw)
Summary: HP has one
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Date: 18 May 88 03:26:23 GMT
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In article <4607@super.upenn.edu> ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar) writes:
|The problem:
|	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 
|is to allow charts, diagrams, etc. to be imported into word-processors
|or other programs and still be printed at the maximum resolution of
|a given output device.
|
|	- Ranjit		(ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu)

I think HP has a standard for their plotters which does quite a few of the
things you are talking about.  Also Postscript is great for describing pics.


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