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From: jch@apollo.HP.COM (Jan Hardenbergh)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Wanna specs: 3D and font standards
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Date: 3 Jan 90 18:32:00 GMT
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> From: T8M-KAUP@FINTUVM.BITNET (Asko Kauppi)
> Date: 30 Dec 89 18:21 GMT

>            Every CAD program has a file format all of its own.
>            Is there really nothing like the IFF and GIF in the 2D world?

In the CAD world, there is IGES or the Initial Graphics Exchange Standard
and ISO/ANSI are working on a monster international standard referred to as
"STEP" which will replace IGES and everything else. In the PC CAD world
there is the AutoCad transfer file format, called DXF.

For general 3D Graphics, you want CGM, or the Computer Graphics Metafile.
CGM works great for 2D graphics as well. CGM definitions are available
from ISO and ANSI. PHIGS archive files are worth considering.

I'd be interested in the answers to the vectorized font standards?
Perhaps comp.fonts?

-Jan Hardenbergh - jch@apollo.hp.com - HP/Graphics Technology@Apollo