ndg503@csc.anu.edu.au (Nick Guoth) (04/15/91)
Hi, A number of people have request a review of the program "The Curator" which I mentioned in my summary last week. The following is a 'back- cover review' of the product. I wish to say here that I still have not used the product and have no connection with Solutions incorporated (but if they wish to send me some money for advertising their product, go for it!). The Curator: An Art Management and File Conversion Program The Curator lets you search your hard disk for graphic files of all types. You can search by full or partial file names, or by user-defined keywords. The Curator will display each file in a minature, so that you can tell if it is the right one without having to open it. You can even view minatures of an entire folder at once. The Curator handles all the common graphic file types including MacPaint, TIFF, PICT, Encapsulated PostScript (IBM and Mac) and Glue. It allows you to open them, display them on the screen, and cut and paste them into any program that will accept them. For example you can open a graphic created by Adobe Illustrator and paste it into PageMaker, MacDraw or even MacWrite. The Curator converts among many graphic file types. For example, it can convert a PICT document to a TIFF for touchup or adding special effects in art programs. The Curator canUt add PostScript or objectness to a graphic that does not already have it. However, it can translate almost any standard format graphic into any other. /-----------------------------------------------------------------\ nick guoth ndg503@csc.anu.edu.au Research School of Chemistry Computing Unit Australian National University Canberra, AUSTRALIA "Happiness is a piece of fudge caught on the first bounce" - Snoopy \-----------------------------------------------------------------/
fsbui@csduts1.lerc.nasa.gov (04/18/91)
In article <1991Apr15.101029.1@csc.anu.edu.au> ndg503@csc.anu.edu.au (Nick Guoth) writes: >Hi, > >A number of people have request a review of the program "The Curator" >which I mentioned in my summary last week. The following is a 'back- >cover review' of the product. I wish to say here that I still have not >used the product and have no connection with Solutions incorporated (but >if they wish to send me some money for advertising their product, go >for it!). > > >The Curator: An Art Management and File Conversion >Program ........... > >/-----------------------------------------------------------------\ >nick guoth ndg503@csc.anu.edu.au >Research School of Chemistry Computing Unit >Australian National University Canberra, AUSTRALIA >"Happiness is a piece of fudge caught on the first bounce" - Snoopy >\-----------------------------------------------------------------/ > I just phoned Solutions Inc., and they informed me that the Curator will not convert a standard text postscript file into a Mac graphic format, since it is not a postscript interpreter. Does anyone know of a way to convert a standard text postscript file to any of the Mac object-oriented graphics formats? Any information will be greatly appreciated. Trong T. Bui fsbui@csduts1.lerc.nasa.gov
baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) (04/19/91)
In article <1991Apr18.160609.20457@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> fsbui@csduts1.lerc.nasa.gov writes:
Does anyone know of a way to convert a standard text postscript file
to any of the Mac object-oriented graphics formats?
Any information will be greatly appreciated.
Well, if the PostScript file contains Encapsulated PostScript (i.e.,
has the proper comments, bounding box info, etc.), you might be able
to open it in Illustrator or Freehand. Then you should be able to
save the results out with a PICT representation, which will be usable
in any Mac program.
I haven't tried this myself, so I don't know for sure whether it
works. Worth a try, though.
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cmcl2!esquire!baumgart | - David Lettermanrobertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) (04/20/91)
In article <BAUMGART.91Apr19114644@info7.esquire.dpw.com> baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes: > > Does anyone know of a way to convert a standard text postscript file > > to any of the Mac object-oriented graphics formats? > > > > Any information will be greatly appreciated. > >Well, if the PostScript file contains Encapsulated PostScript (i.e., >has the proper comments, bounding box info, etc.), you might be able >to open it in Illustrator or Freehand. Nope. Neither program has a PostScript interpreter. Illustrator creates a very special PostScript syntax through use of extensive definitions. Illustrator can parse this special syntax to create a bitmap file, but it cannot interpret general PostScript. The only practical way to write PostScript into Illustrator syntax is to use the Illustrator draw tools! I assume Freehand works similarly. -- * Rob Weinberg, graphics & publishing ***** Does a falling tree make a sound * * {uunet,pyramid}!infmx!robertw ***** if 1: no one hears it * * => Ask me about me. ***** BUT 2: it is not known that * * => Ask Informix about Informix. ***** no one hears it? *