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>>>>> On 9 Nov 89 17:13:29 GMT, gsds@tahoma.UUCP (K.C.Babb) said:
KCB> This may be a bit far out, but is there such a thing as a graphics
KCB> editor which stores/retrieves the edited images using a PostScript
KCB> file?  I've heard of PostScript-displaying utilities, so it must be
KCB> possible to convert a page discription for an on-screen presentation.
KCB> What I'm looking for is something which would read the PostScript
KCB> file for a page, put it on the screen, allow the user to select/
KCB> modify/add items to the picture, and store it back in PostScript,
KCB> which could then easily be hardcopied via laser printer.

KCB> Any such product would be a start, but specifically we'd like
KCB> something which will work on an Apollo.

The idraw graphics editor stores and retrieves drawing in a format
which is postscript.  It is not a `postscript' interpreter or editor
since it uses information embedded in the comments to store it's own
representation of the drawing.

Idraw is one of the applications distributed as part of a C++ language
class library called InterViews.  There is a mailing list for the
discussion of InterViews, and you can send mail to
interviews-request@interviews.stanford.edu to subscribe or get more
information.

You will need a C++ compiler and X11R3 to install it.  Although there
are binaries (executables) for idraw available, I have not seen any
for specificly for the Apollo.  I wish there were, several people here
would like to use it on their Apollos also.  You can get InterViews
via anonymous ftp from interviews.stanford.edu (36.22.0.175).  The
sun3, sun4, mips and other idraw executables are there.  All you have
to do is grab the exeutable and manual page an run it  --- there are
no other supporting files to install.

I use idraw to generate figures for talks, thesis and papers.  It has
been _very_ useful.

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Rich@rice.edu