yount@fox.ece.cmu.edu (Charles Robert Yount) (05/08/91)
Archive-name: graphics/plotting/gnu-graphics/1991-04-29
Archive: qed.rice.edu:/pub/graphics.tar.Z [128.42.4.38]
Original-posting-by: yount@fox.ece.cmu.edu (Charles Robert Yount)
Original-subject: Re: Desperately seeking library which emits trivial postscript
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
In article <32295@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
I desperately need to do plots where the screen contains exactly
three kinds of objects:
- dot (one pixel)
- line (specified as (x1, y1, x2, y2)
- text (specified as (x, y), font, pointsize and string).
I know no postscript as of right now. Is there a sugar-coated
library whereby I can readily do this? I can readily imagine a
library where I would issue calls in a certain coordinate system
(which I have to figure out) and nice postscript files would get
written.
C or Pascal are fine by me; I can also hand-translate fortran.
Thanks!
-ans.
GNU has a set of graphics utilities available via anonymous ftp from
qed.rice.edu as /pub/graphics.tar.Z. Along with replacements for the
Unix utilities plot and graph, it contains a very good postscript
library in C to draw circles, lines, text, dots, etc., etc. As a
bonus, any PS file generated with these utilities is editable with
idraw!
Chuck Yount, CMU
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