dan@systech.bjorn.COM (Dan Gill) (04/30/91)
Do tools exist to convert from DXF to say PBM or Postscript and Back? Thanks, Dg -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "On second thought, let us not go to Camelot. It is a silly place" Dan Gill [uunet ucsd.edu]!systech!dan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sun@ME.UTORONTO.CA (Andy Sun) (04/30/91)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Data eXchange Format (DXF) Keywords: Autocad Data Format References: <877@systech.bjorn.COM> Organization: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering dan@systech.bjorn.COM (Dan Gill) writes: >Do tools exist to convert from DXF to say PBM or Postscript and Back? >Thanks, >Dg >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >"On second thought, let us not go to Camelot. It is a silly place" >Dan Gill [uunet ucsd.edu]!systech!dan >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First thing that comes to my mind when DXF format is mentioned is AutoCAD (I am not awared of other software that generates this format but this doesn't mean anything since my knowledge is limited). A simple answer for the above question is no, there isn't any. So far, PostScript seems to be the dead-end in any conversion chain (for graphics at least, text is a little bit easier to extract from a PostScript file, just a little bit). As for PBM, we are talking about two different worlds (almost, discounting image tracing) here. PBM is a raster graphics (bit map) representation whereas DXF is a vector graphics representation. If you are really talking about AutoCAD in the above, then you can read the DXF file into AutoCAD (I remember there are other desktop publishing software that can take DXF format as well but I forget which ones) and produce PostScript output from AutoCAD with the appropriate plotter driver. As for PBM, you can probably do a screendump of the screen image to GIF or other raster format and then convert it to PBM. Andy _______________________________________________________________________________ Andy Sun | Internet: sun@me.utoronto.ca University of Toronto, Canada | UUCP : ...!utai!me!sun Dept. of Mechanical Engineering | BITNET : sun@me.utoronto.BITNET