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- From: gillett@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Walter E. Gillett)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.pex
- Subject: Can I get 2D NDC primitives out of PEX without hacking the server?
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- Message-ID: <27538@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 17:22:12 GMT
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- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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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
-