felsenst@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu (Joe Felsenstein) (09/25/89)
[This was posted earlier to Pacific Northwest only but drew no answers. Apologies to pnw users for having to read it again] I have a program that draws a particular kind of picture needed in my field (it draws evolutionary trees, if you must know). It is set up to output to various kinds of screens and to files of plotter language commands. I would like to add a format that can be scarfed up by many drawing programs. It should be a vector- (not bitmap-) based format. The Lotus .PIC file format seems most widely eatable by draw programs. Thing is, I haven't been able to find out what the format is. The innumerable books with names like "Power Use of Lotus 123 for World Domination" don't say, they just tell you how to create a .PIC file, not what's in it. All I need is to know how to define the space and draw lines, since my program draws everything by drawing lines (no filled-in circles or polygons, no funny shading). If anyone has this information or knows where I can find it (computer graphics journals? microcomputer magazines? ANSI proposed standards documents?) please e-mail to me. Please ignore the addresses at the top of this message and use these: Joe Felsenstein, Dept. of Genetics SK-50, Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195 Internet: joe@genetics.washington.edu BITNET: FELSENST@UWALOCKE UUCP: ... uw-beaver!uw-entropy!uw-evolution!joe