[6366] in s-news-athena
Re: Interactive preparation of presentation graphics from S
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Wallace)
Thu Feb 2 17:21:07 1995
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 14:03:14 -0800 (PST)
From: John Wallace <jrw@fish.washington.edu>
To: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com>
Cc: S-news@utstat.toronto.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0ra6c1-000LgWC@arugula.statsci.com>
On Thu, 2 Feb 1995, Scott Blachowicz wrote:
>
> >>>>> "John" == John Wallace <jrw@fish.washington.edu>;
> >>>>> in S-news
>
> John> Postscript and metafiles are both vector based, the problem with
> John> postscript is the lack of a standard flavor that ports well.
>
> I don't understand what you mean by this last "problem". The problem with
> trying to edit Postscript is that it is a full programming language, so you'd
> need a Postscript language interpreter in your editor. There isn't really any
> concept of graphical objects in Postscript - it is geared towards operators
> that put ink down on paper. Not a whole lot of need to edit the ink. :-)
>
CorelDraw has a Postscript language interpreter, but only for the Corel
flavor.
In CorelDRAW I can use the drawing tools to hand make a plot with points
and lines. I can then export that to encapusulated postscript (corel
flavor). If I look at the file it has the normal postscript language
text. I can then read that file back into Corel and 'Ungroup' the
elements and manipulate any point or line. So clearly, if Splus wrote
out corel flavor postscript it could be read in and manipulated just as
the vector based windows metafile can. (In fact, CorelTRACE, which
vectorizes bitmap pictures, writes out to this corel flavor postscript
for import into CorelDRAW.)
-jrw
