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From: bobs@sco.com (Bob Stayton)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation
Subject: Re: graph editors, idraw
Message-Id: <1992Oct12.230030.27466@sco.com>
References: <gklaass.718053191@yorku.ca>, <1992Oct6.142417.9354@engage.pko.dec.com>
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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.

bobs
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