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Article #11282Re: Graphics in TeX
From: Micah Beck
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 14:22
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 14:22
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In article <1990Feb20.235243.21897@Neon.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes: >It is becoming increasingly obvious that the future of graphics with TeX >(and virtually anything else for that matter) is in PostScript graphics. Well, you're half right. PostScript is half of a solution - the back end. However, a document described in PostScript cannot necessarily be manipulated in any way except to be printed. For instance, it is not in general possible to edit a PostScript file in a structured way (ala MacDraw, Fig, etc..) The worst case: text which has been written in TeX, translated to PS, and included as part of a figure cannot be edited in LaTeX, or even roughly translated back to TeX. Same for structured graphics objects. What's needed is a standard application-level representation for graphics, and a good standard translation from this to PostScript. Representing all graphics in PostScript is like writing all programs in assembly language! /micah
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!beck From: beck@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Graphics in TeX Message-ID: <37578@cornell.UUCP> Date: 21 Feb 90 14:22:50 GMT References: <1990Feb20.235243.21897@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Reply-To: beck@cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY Lines: 18