sullivan@msor.exeter.ac.uk (Rob Sullivan) (09/01/90)
I would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right
direction for a CGM to PICT conversion program for the Macintosh. I
guess it would be useful to many of us if someone could summarise the
various graphics translation packages available for the Mac (if such a
thing does not already exist).
Cheers,
Rob..
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"One must be open-minded --
--but not so open-minded that one's brains fall out."stanbach@Apple.COM (Francis Stanbach) (09/03/90)
In a previous lifetime, I wrote some code to do this for the National Bureau of Standards Institute for Computer Science and Technology. If you call them, they probably won't remember that I did it, but I think I still have the code. It wasn't complete (It didn't do dashed lines around a path etc.) but it did the basics. I don't know anything about rights to the stuff, but I was a government employee so I guess everyone owns it. Francis -- wmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwm Francis Stanbach Software Engineer Finder & Applications Apple Computer, Inc. wmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwm
johan@dutnak2.tudelft.nl (Johan de Haas) (09/06/90)
In <SULLIVAN.90Aug31180850@msor0.msor.exeter.ac.uk> sullivan@msor.exeter.ac.uk (Rob Sullivan) writes: >I would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right >direction for a CGM to PICT conversion program for the Macintosh. I >guess it would be useful to many of us if someone could summarise the >various graphics translation packages available for the Mac (if such a >thing does not already exist). I've seen a couple of commercial packages that can convert PC graphics formats to PICT and the other way around. The best deal at the moment seems the MacLinkPlus translation package from DataViz, which in it's latest version 4.5 translates CGM, IMG, GEM and DXF graphics formats to PICT (only one way). See MacWeek No.29, pp14 for a review. MacLinkPlus can be obtained from all the major mail order companies. There is also a Mac package called PICTure this that converts various graphic formats (including CGM, but also the bitmapped ones) into PICT. The company: FGM, phone 703 478 9881 Another Mac translation package is MetaPICT from GSC Associates (phone 213 379 2113). I have used version 1.02 which worked partly. Maybe they have a better version now. There is a shareware package that you might want to try. It can be found as cgm-maker-102.hqx in the util directory of the sumex archives. It did not work on my CGM files. I had the impression that it is meant for bitmap graphics, if such a thing exists within the CGM standard. For PC owners there is Xport from Micrografx that does all the above mentioned things but also going from PICT to CGM etc. The can be reached at: Phone 800 272 3729 Phone 214 234 1769 Fax 214 234 2410 Hope this helps some folks! Johan de Haas tel. +31 15 785188 E-mail: johan@dutnak2.tudelft.nl Lab. of Seismics & Acoustics Delft University of Technology P.O Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands -- Johan de Haas tel. +31 15 785188 E-mail: johan@dutnak2.tudelft.nl Lab. of Seismics & Acoustics Delft University of Technology P.O Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands -- Johan de Haas tel. +31 15 785188 E-mail: johan@dutnak2.tudelft.nl Lab. of Seismics & Acoustics Delft University of Technology P.O Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands -- Johan de Haas tel. +31 15 785188 E-mail: johan@dutnak2.tudelft.nl Lab. of Seismics & Acoustics Delft University of Technology P.O Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) (09/07/90)
sullivan@msor.exeter.ac.uk (Rob Sullivan) writes: >I would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right >direction for a CGM to PICT conversion program for the Macintosh. I >guess it would be useful to many of us if someone could summarise the >various graphics translation packages available for the Mac (if such a >thing does not already exist). A friend of mine has written a utility for just the thing you are after. It is called Mac CGM, and can convert (bi-directionally) to PICT and PICT2 format. The company's address is Pixelix PO Box 58 Carnegie VIC 3163 AUSTRALIA ian -- Ian Hoyle /\/\ Image Processing & Data Analysis Group / / /\ BHP Melbourne Research Laboratories / / / \ 245 Wellington Rd, Mulgrave, 3170 / / / /\ \ AUSTRALIA \ \/ / / / \ / / / Phone : +61-3-560-7066 \/\/\/ FAX : +61-3-561-6709 E-mail : ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au