sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E. Wilcoxon) (09/15/88)
In article <5152@netnews.upenn.edu> ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar) writes: ... >Gives me a chance to plug my idea for a S.G. standard again! If there >were a standardized format for these things, we would only need one >postscript translator... Anyone remember NAPLPS? Text, device-independent graphics (bit and/or object) with variable precision (for more detail, use more bits), macros of anything, and standard characters for all Romance languages. NAPLPS is great for input/output with an intelligent graphics device, but not for storing data. For example, NAPLPS doesn't provide for labelled objects in the data (it can put a text label on a screen, but a CAD program can't look in the data for object "WIDGET1"). NAPLPS is also not 3D. -- Scot E. Wilcoxon sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!datapg!sewilco Data Progress UNIX masts & rigging +1 612-825-2607 uunet!datapg!sewilco "COSMOS 1900 is falling down, falling down, falling down..."