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Article #2083Map of the World in PostScript
From: Patrick Dockhorn
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 18:36
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 18:36
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There exists a package of geographic maps of the world. They can be found by querying archie for 'worldmap' (for example on nz20.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de in /pub/msdos/worldmap) - the only disadvantage is that they're not PostScript. I'm sure that there have already been solutions to this; nevertheless I wrote a small C program (< 10kB source) that converts such a map into a conforming PostScript file including options for scaling. The program has been successfully tested on a SPARCstation running SunOS 4.1.1 using gcc 1.40.3 to compile but should be easy to port to other platforms. If you're interested, send me a mail message. If I receive many requests, I'll post it. Patsch -- Supplement: A .44 magnum beats four aces. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Dockhorn Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe/Germany. INTERNET: dockhorn@fzi.de There are two rules for success in life: BITNET : ukew@dkauni2.bitnet Rule 1: Don't tell people everything you know.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!gate.fzi.de!dockhorn From: dockhorn@fzi.de (Patrick Dockhorn) Subject: Map of the World in PostScript Message-ID: <1992Sep3.183627.22968@fzi.de> Keywords: map world Sender: news@fzi.de (FZI-news) Reply-To: dockhorn@fzi.de Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:36:27 GMT Lines: 26