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From: kent@xanth.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Color QuickDraw (really NAPLPS, CGM, et al)
Message-ID: <5278@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 19 May 88 06:01:19 GMT
References: <9708@apple.Apple.Com> <97800007@silver> <5252@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <5970@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Posted: Thu May 19 02:01:19 1988

In article <5970@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>In article <5252@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>In article <97800007@silver> backstro@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
>>>I think that the NAPLS system is the best way to go in terms of structured
>>>color graphics on the Amiga.   [ ... ]
>>>
>>Again, nice looking on the surface, but a long term mistake.  "NAPLPS"
>>means just what it says: "NORTH AMERICAN Presentation Level Protocol
>>Syntax;" [ ... ]
>>
>>To me, a better idea is to use the official CGM international
>>standard, and provide drivers (almost surely long ago written) to
>>convert from CGM to the two TV "standards."  [ ... ]
>
>	Okay, where do I grab a copy of the CGM standard?

Quoted from two articles I set aside a while back:

These people are in charge of the X3H3 (Computer Graphics Programming
Languages) committee that created the standard:

>The address is ANSI X3 Secretariat, 311 First Street, NW, Suite 500,
>Washington, DC 20001-2178, USA.  I do not have the phone number; sorry.

A rather ancient (1981) phone number was: (202) 466-2288.  It might
still work.

The above is the CBEMA office, and you need to get from them the
document number for X3H3's Computer Graphics Metafile ANS (American
National Standard.)  You might also be interested in the CGI (Computer
Graphics Interface - the virtual graphics engine interface) ANS.

All of the finished standards are ordered through these folks, by
document number:

>American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018 or
>call (212) 354-3300.

That is ANSI's main office.

Be warned, they want an arm and a leg.  Don't be surprised to get
small change back from $100.

Hoping this actually turns out to be helpful.

Kent, the man from xanth.