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- From: ph+@cs.cmu.edu (Paul Heckbert)
- Subject: Re: Editing postscript
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:58:29 GMT
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- In article <BxGLrE.85A@ens-lyon.fr> ameroni@archeboc.ens-lyon.fr (Alberto Meroni) writes:
- >What I would really like to do is adding in some way
- >some drawing to an existing postscript file
-
- A cute trick I learned from Petr van Blokland, a typographer
- and mac programmer in the Netherlands:
-
- If you're generating the postscript files yourself, then don't use
- standard postscript, use the dialect of postscript used by Adobe Illustrator.
- When you Save a file in Illustrator, the file format it uses is valid
- postscript with extra information contained in comments, that allows
- it to construct structural info, handles, and other interactive tools.
- If your programs generate postscript files of this type, then you'll be
- able to edit them interactively using Illustrator!
-
- The Illustrator file format is described in some documentation that's
- available from Adobe (anyone know how to order it?), or you can just
- look at a sample Illustrator file and figure it out, I suppose.
-
- -Paul
-
- Paul Heckbert ph@cs.cmu.edu
- Computer Science Dept., Carnegie Mellon University
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