barner@udel.edu (Ken Barner) (02/20/91)
Hello, I'm looking for recommendations for drawing programs that can generate encapsulated postscript (EPS). I have been using MacDraw II but I am growing restless with the non-conforming postscript output that the Mac generates. My drawing needs are fairly simple, mostly figures for papers, nothing that MacDraw couldn't handle. What I'm after is the EPS. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, ken barner --- barner@huey.udel.edu
feb@pokey.dsd.trw.com (Frank Bien) (02/22/91)
In article <5778@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>, ray@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Ray Ghanbari) writes: |> In article <45132@nigel.ee.udel.edu> barner@udel.edu (Ken Barner) writes: |> > |> >I'm looking for recommendations for drawing programs that can generate |> >encapsulated postscript (EPS). I have been using MacDraw II but I am - delted - |> I believe that Illustrator deals with EPS. My question, which is along |> the same vein, is whether it is possible to import MacDraw files into |> Illustrator in way such that they are still editable? When I called I do quite a bit of designing using Aldus Freehand (similar to Illustrator). Both programs draw/output using postscript. Bitmap-type drawing programs work on a different principal than EPS programs. While Illustrator might "import" bitmap pictures, the only way I know of that it could read them is by using an auto-trace type function. Freehand books generally tell you the best way to import a bitmap drawing is the same way as importing a scanned image. . . send it to layer zero and trace it. Freehand, et. al., use devices known as Belzeir (sp?) curves to draw. These point to point drawing techniques are nothing like Mac Draw. They are two different ideas. (one is easier, the other is higher-quality). But then again, I could be wrong. . . good luck.