welch@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Arun Welch) (03/23/89)
I've got a 'new' LispUsers module for Medley.
The module is called PICT and basically implements a new ImageStream type
(like IMPRESS, INTERPRESS, etc.) that generate Apple Macintosh 'PICT' (version
1) files which MacDraw (I & II), Canvas, GrayView, Giffer, etc. can read.
We've been using it quite successfully to transfer Sketch documents over to
the MAC but it will generally handle anything you can send to an ImageStream
(graphs, bitmaps, etc.) except multi-page TEdit documents as the 'PICT' format
does not support multiple pages.
Included is a newer version of the 'READAPPLEFONT'
module delivered with Medley that improves the handling of some of the font
information used by PICT (though the newer version is not absolutely required,
it just improves the accuracy of the conversion).
My understanding is that ENVoS has given it to one of their customers who
built a system on the D-machines which they are documenting on Macintoshes and
they have used the module successfully. The only tricky part to it is
extracting the Macintosh fonts for READAPPLEFONT to use.
The files are:
drawcurve.lcom (our generic curve drawing program, PICT doesn't require
it but it won't draw real curves unless it's loaded).
pict
pict.lcom
pict.tedit
readapplefont
readapplefont.lcom
readapplefont.tedit
Thanks,
- Christopher
[The files are on Tut.cis.ohio-state.edu, in /pub/lispusers/medley....
Apologies are due on my part to Christopher on not getting these out
to you folks sooner. Arun]