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From: walters@COMMUNITY-CHEST.MITRE.ORG
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Subject: Novice NeWS user needs assistance
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Date: 5 Jun 88 03:43:14 GMT
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I have several questions concerning NeWS.  We are using the pNeWS 
release from Parallax on a Sun 3/160.

Documentation:

The documentation we received seems fairly sparse; it consists of a
manual of Parallax extensions to NeWS, as well as a NeWS manual.  I
have also purchased two Adobe books on Postscript, the Reference
manual and the cookbook.  I have made some effort to find the answers
to my questions in the manuals before attempting this posting.  What
other documentation is available (I also looked on the new-archive
server documentation index)?

Palettes:

How does NeWS (specifically pNeWS) handle color?  Can the default
palette be changed?  If so, how?

Saving Postscript Canvas as Rasterfile:

The demos that are provided show methods of loading rasterfiles and
painting on a canvas.  Is the reverse operation supported, i.e., are
postscript/NeWS primitives provided that save a canvas as a rasterfile?
 
Any suggestions, pointers, etc. would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks
in advance.

-- chris walters
   (walters@mitre.arpa)
   (703) 883-615

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