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- From: penev@venezia (Penio Penev)
- Subject: Re: PostScript "Editor"
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:32:51 GMT
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- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- -- Penio.
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