Re: graph editors, idraw

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From: Bill Poitras
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 19:50

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Peter Davis (davis@dssdev.enet.dec.com) wrote:
: I doubt very much that you'll find something which edits arbitrary PostScript
: files.  PostScript is an extremely rich language, and it's possible to create
: the same effect in many different ways.  Given that, it would be extremely
: difficult to write a program that can read any PostScript file and make
: semantic sense out of it.  

How about ghostscript? All you would have to do is write a idraw output
driver.  There exists drivers for X and IBM PC EGA and some other
printer drivers, whose to say an idraw interface written in InterViews
would be impossible?

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