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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!maccs!rickan
- From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
- Subject: Re: Converting Structured Graphics Formats
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.182652.19362@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 18:26:52 GMT
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- In article <64479@cup.portal.com> blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
- writes:
-
- >Structured graphics are definitely something we'll be doing. Postscript
- >will be first (in & out) and others will follow once we have the basic
- >engine ready - this fall is the general target for this capability.
-
- Great news! Postscript is undoubtedly essential, but I would strongly
- encourage a facility for Computer Graphics Metafiles (CGM), Corel Draw (CDR),
- Micrographx Designer (DRW), AutoCAD (DXF), Lotus (PIC), WordPerfect (WPG)
- and our own DR2D file formats. When you consider the volume of structured
- clipart available on other platforms, I'm sure that such a program will be
- welcomed by the DTP/graphics/multimedia community.
-
- >P.S. - Autotracing is something else again; but it's not out of the
- >question. Autotracing is appearing on other packages for the Amiga, so
- >the facility will be there. We may provide the link to the other
- >package instead of reinventing the wheel, I don't know yet.
-
- Unfortunately, of the current packages offering autotracing options
- (Pro Draw and Expert Draw), both use a proprietary output format. What
- we really need is an autotrace which will generate either EPS or DR2D.
-
- Mark
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