Re: needed picture format (was: Re: Amaya 1.3b)

In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:36:58 +0200."
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> Note: the only thing we need is the capabilities to make vector oriented
> pictures. The best thing I have seen in this relation is the draw

The W3C is working on it. See "What the Future Holds" in 
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Activity


> command on my old msx:
> 
> - Simple drawing commands like:
> 	line (x0, y0, x1, y1, [options])
> 	box (x0, y0, x1, y1, [options])
> 	circle (x, y, r, [options])
> 	[options] include:
> 	- line thickness
> 	- line color
> 	- line style (line, dashed, ...)
> 	- line picture (stretch, concatenate, ...)
> 	- fill color
> 	- fill style (...)
> 	- fill picture (tiled, centered, [see the xv application for more
> options])
> - Complex drawing command:
> 	- draw (x,y, 'plotcommands' [options])
> 		where plotcommands resemble plotting like go-ing up,
> 		down, left, right and things like pen-up and pen-down)
> 
> In the above, the x , y and other position elements are pixels or
> percentages of the current box. Positive values start at the left or top
> and negative numbers start from the right or bottom. 
> 
> The box is a defined box like a box around a picture or a table cel. If
> not in a box, just the entire page (or frame cel). If it must be on the
> background or foreground should be an option and defaults to the order
> in the code (first is bottom, latter is top)
> 
> Now I think of it, a special box can be the visual part of the screen:
> the picture fills the brouwser window and does not scroll if the page
> scrolls. On printing this one, the picture is on every page.
> 
> 
> This can be verry hard for some easy brouwsers but that also comes with
> tables and extentions like math.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> CB
> 
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  Irene.

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