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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.  Given that, it would be extremely
difficult to write a program that can read any PostScript file and make
semantic sense out of it.  It would be possible, for example, to write a
program which extracts all the paths from a PostScript file, and saves the
grahics context at the time those paths are to be stroked or filled, but that
wouldn't necessarily give you something useful.  For graduated fills, for
example, you would end up with a huge number of slightly different paths with
slightly different color settings.

Adobe Illustrator format has become something of an industry standard, and
there are a number of packages which can import and/or export Illustrator
format.

Computer Support Corporation has a package called Decypher, which they claim
can read arbitrary PostScript files, and convert them to a format editable by
their Arts & Letters graphics package.  I don't know how complete or
successful it is, however.


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