jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey) (08/14/90)
Greetings all -- I'm working on a scientific plotting library which uses Adobe Illustrator 2.0 compatible code for the graphics file format. I've gotten rather tired of having to download the files to the macintosh each time I want to check the results of my code, so I'm going ahead and crufting a quick hack to envelope the library's A.I. code with the necessary postscript to allow the LaserWriter to print out the file directly. Related to this, I have two main questions. The first is to ask if anyone has written a post-processor similar to that described in document PN LPS5007, the A.I. document format specification (2.0). The main features of which included the ability to insert procedure sets into the PS code, as well as support of most of the PS document structuring conventions, 2.0. The second question is to ask if anyone knows of a convenient way to encode several pages within one A.I. compatible file. I know that Illustrator at least supports one illustration spanning multiple pages; is this formalized in the file format in some fashion? I'll take a look at the PostScript with the print to file option, but I thought I'd go ahead and ask while I was here. If no one has written such a filter, I'll probably go ahead and implement one, although I don't know that I'll support all the functions described in the A.I. document specs. Thanks for any information, hints or leads. Yours in PostScript, Jonathan Abbey (512) 926-5934 | Amiga Programmer Wanna-be jonabbey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu bix: jonabbey +----------------------------- The University of Texas at Austin - CS Undergrad | Speaking for myself, at best
jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey) (08/14/90)
Oops.. please reply to the previous post at broccol@csdfx8a.arlut.utexas.edu or jonabbey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu instead of the reply-to line.. the news software here was good enough to combine the two, producing nonsense. Thanks again. Jonathan Abbey (512) 926-5934 | Amiga Programmer Wanna-be jonabbey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu bix: jonabbey +----------------------------- The University of Texas at Austin - CS Undergrad | Speaking for myself, at best