brads@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM (11/17/87)
Recently I had the pleasure (:-)) of using UN*X pic/troff to make a moderately complex drawing. While the results were completely acceptable, the process of making it (edit, make hard copy, oops!, edit, ...) was not. I am looking for a way to ease the process of making pic drawings. Any good suggestions will be gratefully accepted. It seems that one could use a drawing program on the ST (like Degas) to make the drawing, and then convert the output of the drawing program into pic/troff commands. Has anyone done this kind of thing before? Is there a PD/shareware/commercial filter available to convert popular ST graphics files into pic/troff? Please respond via email, and I will summarize responses to the net. Brad Staff Usenet: codas!novavax!hcx1!brads
fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (11/22/87)
In article <46700003@hcx1>, brads@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes: > > Recently I had the pleasure (:-)) of using UN*X pic/troff to make a > moderately complex drawing. While the results were completely > acceptable, the process of making it (edit, make hard copy, oops!, edit, > ...) was not. I am looking for a way to ease the process of making pic > drawings. Any good suggestions will be gratefully accepted. It seems Why convert the drawing to troff or pic input? We use devps to convert troff output to PostScript for printing on either a LaserWriter or Linotronic and it allows you to include PostScript generated elsewhere into the output. We teach classes (as well as sell devps :-) ) and I use our Atari and Publishing Partner to create graphics for the class manuals and then include them in the troff'ed body text. It works just fine. -- Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX or 527-3385 ...!uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl
polsen@luna.dpl.scg.hac.com (Paul Olsen) (01/14/89)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Fonts Summary: Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: polsen@luna.UUCP (Paul Olsen) Followup-To: Distribution: na Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA Keywords: fonts I know a person who needs to do word processing in an Indian dialect called GUJARATI. I know that if he looks hard enough he will find someone to provide this for him on a Mac. The Mac is big on foreign fonts. If he can do it on an ST he will buy an ST instead of a Mac. Have foreign fonts been done on the ST? If so, which company sells them? Of course he wants wysiwyg on the screen and printer. Paul Olsen (213) 973-5154 P.S. I have two Magic Sacs (new) for sale for $75 each Note: He is a total novice so I won't confuse him with Magic Sac options.