laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (03/03/84)
From sdcarl!rusty@Berkeley Sat Mar 3 00:43:14 1984 Received: by sdcarl.CARL (4.12/4.7) id AA00349; Fri, 2 Mar 84 07:10:53 pst Date: Fri, 2 Mar 84 07:10:53 pst From: sdcarl!rusty@Berkeley (Rusty Wright) Message-Id: <8403021510.AA00349@sdcarl.CARL> Phone-Number: (619) 452-4383 To: laser-lovers@WASHINGTON.ARPA, Furuta@WASHINGTON.ARPA Subject: Re: What graphics primitives should device independent typesetting provide? Cc: mackay@WASHINGTON.ARPA ReSent-date: Sat 3 Mar 84 00:39:42-PST ReSent-from: Richard Furuta <Furuta@WASHINGTON.ARPA> ReSent-to: "Laser Lovers": ; i would think that the primitives that ditroff supplies would be sufficient until those in charge decide on some graphics ``standard'' for typesetting. it seems that it generally takes many years before a standard gets hammered out and etched in stone. the pictures that ditroff draws using the ``zillions of periods'' look excellent. actually they look better than using the printer's built in vector command because the width of the line can be controlled by the point size of the periods you use. i don't know about other printers but the symbolics draws one pixel wide lines when using the native graphics commands. these don't usually reproduce that well.