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From: victoro@crash.cts.com (Victor O'Rear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Is there a better alternative than MS-Windows Paint program???
Message-ID: <4194@crash.cts.com>
Date: 14 May 89 17:09:41 GMT
References: <355@greek.UUCP> <1866@mas1.UUCP> <770@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: victoro@crash.CTS.COM (Dr. Snuggles)
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In article <770@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> vpg@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (venu.p.gopal) writes:
>In article <1866@mas1.UUCP> jimb@mas1.UUCP (Jim Burke) writes:
>>I have a related question.  I have not found a drawing package that produces
>>output compatable with WordPerfect 5.0 that produces reasonable quality
>>printed graphics.  I use GEM Draw heavily but it is not supported.  Many
>>of the "paint" (bitmapped) graphics packages are more difficult to use
>>than GEM but even they do not produce good quality drawings when printed
>>inside a WP document.  Or should I expect not to find a package that is
>>compatible?  Is this a problem with the graphics package or with WordPerfect?
>have any idea if and when this may happen.
>
>Another solution would have been for VP-Graphics, GEM etc. to create
>encapsulated postscript (EPS) files.  WP can read these.  If GEM draw
>will support HPGL output, you can also try reading this with WP.
>WP will also read some type of files generated by AutoCad.
>
I've talked with Digital Research/GEM technical support and they say that
a new HPGL driver is in the works for GEM Output since the current one
will overlay different colors without regard for layers. IE: No hidden line
removal.  For an object orientated drawing program, this is a serious
limitation.  I would like to find something better than GEM Draw with
multiple output formats.
.

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