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From: ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Structured Graphics Standard
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Date: 8 Sep 88 06:01:18 GMT
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Reply-To: ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar)
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As long as we're bringing up old ideas like PATH:---

4 or 5 months ago I posted a message suggesting that we need a
structured graphics standard for SIMPLE graphics - lines, filled
polygons and ellipses, and multi-font text.  I suggested that as long
as Apple already invented Quickdraw, we might as well use that -it's
simple, relatively easy to implement (all we're missing is RoundRects
and arbitrary regions - ok, the latter ain't so easy) - and there's
400 zillion people out there using MacDraw.  The overall net response
was "nawww, we can do better than that."

Months later, we still don't have a standard for structured 2d graphics,
and there are now 525 zillion people who already use the QuickDraw standard
whether they know it or not, over in the Mac community.  All we need
("all," he says!) is a quickdraw.library and a QUIK form for IFF, which
just contains a binary duplicate of an apple qd file.  Heck, I'd do
it myself, if I were not an Extremely Busy Person, and, more to the
point, an inept programmer.

Well, so whaddya think?  If the prevailing opinion is that the subject
is dead, I apologize abjectly, and when I want to make a poster or
graph for a laser printer, I will hide my face and sneak over to my
roommate's Mac.

thanks...
		-Ranjit


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