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IMPORTING GRAPHICS ON THE MAC
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One of the Macintosh Macintosh strongest points is its ability to 
easily generate and manipulate graphics. Some of the pictures one 
wants to manipulate originate from outside the Mac. In our lab, we 
routinely generate so-called seismic wiggle-trace plots, as well as 
intensity plots, 3D contour plots etc. on a Convex minisuper.

PIXELMAPS
For pixelmaps, there are a number of excellent programs in the 
public domain (Image 1.16 and the NCSA suite) that allow you to 
import a pixelmap that originated from another machine.

OBJECT ORIENTED GRAPHICS
I think there is no nice solution to import object oriented graphics on
the Mac (please let me know if I am wrong). I am aware of the 
VersatermPro "Save as Pict" option, but it doesn't give enough 
resolution.

WHAT WE HAVE
We use the UNIRAS graphics package on our (unix) machine to make 
our fancy plots. Besides some 100+ other devices, it also supports 
PostScript. Actually we use it in conjunction with CAP to directly 
print to a LocalTalk attached LaserWriter (via a FastPath). UNIRAS 
can also generate GKS and CGM metafiles. It even generates EPSF 
files, but without the bitmap "preview".

WHAT WE WANT
I want to import object oriented graphics on the Mac. EPSF with 
preview would also be nice. I think there should be some 
interchange format that programs on a unix machine can generate 
and Mac (conversion) applications can read. Or is there already such 
a thing? The reason we want this capability is for making reports 
and presentations. One wants to add annotation to graphs (arrows, 
units, figure numbers), or put multiple graphs on a page.

I'm interested in hearing from people that want roughly the same 
things. Perhaps you're working on a solution, perhaps you've already 
solved it. Let me know.


Johan de Haas     tel. +31 15 785188   E-mail: johan@dutnak0.tudelft.nl
Laboratory of Seismics and Acoustics
Delft University of Technology
P.O Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands