[comp.windows.interviews] PostScript Functions within Interviews

robinson@akira.enet.dec.com (Willard J. Robinson) (05/04/91)

I not seeing any documentation on DOC I found
that if I saved something with a .ps extension it
was saved in PostScript format.  I was wondering,
however, if any functionallity is supported to 
read in a PostScript file into DOC?  (I can't seem
to do it)...

any info would be appreciated

will robinson

DEC - ASDS Advanced Development

calder@uluru.stanford.edu (Paul Calder) (05/05/91)

Will Robinson reports...

    that if I saved [a doc file] with a .ps extension it
    was saved in PostScript format.

The 'print' command writes a PostScript file for the current document.

    [is] any functionallity ... supported to 
    read in a PostScript file into DOC?

Doc cannot read arbitrary PostScript.  However, it can read graphics
files created by several other tools that just happen to use
PostScript-compatible file formats.  Specifically, it can read idraw
drawings and files generated by Jeff Poskanzer's ppmtops and pgmtops
tools.

    ... not seeing any documentation on DOC ...

InterViews 3.0-beta includes a man page for doc.
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Paul Calder
Computer Systems Lab
Stanford University
calder@lurch.stanford.edu