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From: davis@karl.ucar.edu (Glenn P. Davis)
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Subject: Re: CGM Format (Computer Graphics Metafile)
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[ The Question is how to go from CGM to PostScript. herzog@sun.com
[ suggests Precision Visuals . . .

SunGKS supports CGM as an input workstation and a PostScript as an output
workstation.  So, if you have SunGKS, you can write a very simple GKS
program that opens the CGM file as an input and PostScript as output ...
This is the sort of thing GKS is good at.

Note there is a bug in SunGKS (Bug ID 1025729, originally reported 15 Feb
*1989* !), which prevents it from properly interpreting 'short form' CGM
strings.  Many systems, including NCAR Graphics, will generate these for
'TEXT' primitives whose length is less than 255.  You will have no problem
with CGM files produced by SunGKS, however.

Glenn P. Davis
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