Re: WYSIWYG Postscripty editor for SGI Iris

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From: Tom Schneider
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 15:30

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In article <eesnyder.675276116@beagle> eesnyder@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder)
writes:
>I am looking for a WYSIWYG Postscript editor for the SGI Iris.

I am familiar with the fig and xfig programs for the Sun.  These produce
a special file which can be converted to PostScript by a program
called fig2dev.  Unfortunately fig is not really working with PostScript,
so arbitrary rotation, scaling etc can not be done.  Text is a fixed size
and is NOT the same on the printer as on the screen.  A real pain.

I must say that the interface for fig is really nice.  The xfig version no
longer has scaling, which makes it impossible to do fine adjustments to
the figure.  I can't believe that they dropped this feature.

So I too would like to know about a good PostScript editor.  The ones I've seen
bomb.  There goes the drawing!  This discouraged me from ever using them
again!  One of the bombers is part of GoodNeWS.  Maybe those folks have fixed
it by now.

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov

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