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- From: penev@venezia (Penio Penev)
- Subject: Re: PostScript "Editor"
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:51:40 GMT
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- Penio Penev (penev@venezia) wrote:
- : David M. Senseman (senseman@lucy.brainlab.utsa.edu) wrote:
- : : A friend of mine asked me to find out if there are any
- : : software packages (hopefully free :) that can used to
- : : "edit" a PostScript file on an Indigo (4.0.5F).
- : :
- : : He's using Mathematica to generate graphs of data sets
- : : and wanted something that could be used to manipulate
- : : titles, arrows, etc.
- : :
- :
- : Intepreting PS is not a trivial task. I think Adobe has Adobe
- : Illustarator, which tries to do this, or part of it.
- :
- : The better way to solve the problem is to look where it originated -
- : Mathematica. It has a lot of setup parameters for controlling the
- : outlook of graphs. Perhaps a RTFM would help.
-
- Well I located and read TFM. Its name is
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- Mathematica
- A system for doing mathematics by computer
- by Stephen Wolfram
- Adison-Welsley Publishing Company, Inc
- ISBN 0-201-19334-5; 0-201-19330-2 (pbk)
- chapter 1.8 Graphics
-
- I can now understand the question. The parametrers that are optional
- are very few. I can imaging situations, when they are not enough.
-
- :
- : If the graph generation in Mathematica is poorly written, but the PS
- : driver is well written, a text editor and a PS manual would do the
- : job. One might be able sustitute the punctions for drawing labels,
- : axes etc. Of course, he will have a xpsview or ghostscript window
- : constantly popped to test the interventions.
-
- :
- : I myself am interested in a good way to generate 2D graphs and haven't
- : found the sollution. Mathematica certaily is not. If anybody has,
- : please let me know.
-
- More than ever.
-
- :
- : -- Penio.
- :
-
- -- Penio.
-