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bobs@sco.COM (Bob Stayton) writes:


>In article <1992Oct6.142417.9354@engage.pko.dec.com>, davis@dssdev.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) mentioned:
>==> 
>==> In article <gklaass.718053191@yorku.ca>, gklaass@nexus.yorku.ca (Gary
>==> Klaassen) writes...
>==> > 
>==> > Hello, we are trying to locate a graphics editor which will
>==> > accept as input a postscript file (produced by another
>==> > non-editable graphics package).
>==> 
>==> 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.

>I thought the same thing until I saw Island Draw 3.0.  It
>has an option to import Postscript, and it seems to accept
>arbitrary Postscript.  I have fed it single page Postcript
>files from Illustrator, Corel, Ventura, Designer, Eroff,
>and hand-coded files, and it made Island Draw objects out
>of them.  The file initially opens as one grouped object,
>but if you ungroup, you get editible objects.  I was quite
>impressed.  I don't doubt there are ways to fool the
>interpreter, but it works for output from drawing and
>publishing packages, which is what I need it for.

Corel Draw can import PostScript too  (it works the same way:
you have to ungroup if you want to make changes other than
resize/rotate/etc)
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