Can I get 2D NDC primitives out of PEX without hacking the server?

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From: Walter E. Gillett
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 17:22

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Hi, Folks
    My company has a visualization system that uses 2D and 3D display-list
graphics features.  Currently these are implemented by a widget that I wrote
in-house.  It's a 3D display-list version of the Xlib drawing primitives.
Anyway, it supports wysiwyg output to PostScript and AutoCAD DXF format by
sending 2D NDC (i.e. screen-ready) primitives out the bottom of the widget
to either a PS or DXF engine.

    We'd like to "go standard" and use a more portable drawing package than
my proprietary widget but we need to retain our wysiwyg PS and DXF capability.
So can I get 2D NDC primitives out of PEX without hacking the server?  If not,
how does everyone else do what we do?  Is there a better approach than the one
we've taken?

			Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
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Joe Shapiro (NOT Walter Gillett, though I'm using his account!)
Please send replies to:  joe@ConSolve.com or gillett@ai.mit.edu

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