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From: kms@ecsvax.UUCP (Ken Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are there any decent drawing programs?!?!
Summary: Correct.  DrawPlus config & output simple ASCII
Keywords: Draw Plus, Postscript
Message-ID: <7140@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 04:02:27 GMT
References: <685@lakesys.UUCP> <628@godot.psc.edu> <18324@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> <11034@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>
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In article <11034@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>, dbk@teroach.UUCP (Dave Kinzer) writes:
> In article <18324@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
> >In article <628@godot.psc.edu> eberger@godot.UUCP (Ed Berger) writes:
> >>excellent.  I remember seeing AEGIS Draw would only print a screen-dump, YUCK!
> >
>   Draw plus has output configuration files that it creates its output data
> from.  There are strings for Pen Down, Pen Up, Move, etc.  All very simple
> stuff.  There are also strings to dump at the beginning and end of job.
> (My memory may be a little fuzzy, I havn't messed with the output files
> since I got the program and had to fix one)

You're memory still works.  Their "drivers" are simple ASCII
config files where you fill in the command for "PEN UP", etc.

Their output files, being based on those few commands, are just
as simple.  It is also just as easy to twiddle with them.  I
started doing that with simple scaling changes because that was
faster than rebooting the program and reloading what (for
DrawPlus) were large drawings (simple 400 point scattergrams).


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Ken Steele   Dept. of Psychology    kms@ecsvax.[bitnet || UUCP]
             Mars Hill College      kms@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
             Mars Hill, NC 28754