- From: Murray Altheim <murray.altheim@nttc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 11:21:58 -0400
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
- Cc: connolly@beach.w3.org
>In message <10955.9507071246@afs.mcc.ac.uk>, lilley writes: >>> While you are at it you might want to standardize a vector drawing format. >> >>CGM (ISO/IEC 8632: 1992) is currently being registered as an Internet >>Media Type. > >What sort of support for CGM is in various authoring tools? e.g. can >I easily save FrameMaker drawings in CGM? How about stuff like MacDraw, >etc.? > >Does anybody know how CGM interacts with fonts? If it has a nice clean >font story, that would put it way ahead of EPS for this sort of thing. > >The consortium has been approached by somebody who's willing to give >away source to a CGM viewer. If there were free CGM viewers available >via w3.org, do you think it would take off? > >Dan Dan, I know that Canvas (both Windows and Mac versions) imports and exports CGM format. I don't believe FreeHand does, at least not my version. I just gave Claris a call, and according to the rep, MacDraw doesn't, but ClarisDraw can export to CGM (no import). I wish Excel did, as I think with that you'd be assured popularity. Anybody on FrameMaker? Our office would certainly use CGM to display our metrics information, as client-side resizing would be handled a lot better than with bitmaps, and of course document size would shrink drastically. I haven't played much with CGM, and I wouldn't know where to find the spec, but on a quick check using Canvas I exported CGM and then reimported. On comparison with the original: a) it moved the top left of my graphic to 0,0 b) aspect ratio remained the same; overall size shrunk 3.3% c) rotated text is now a bitmap; regular TrueType text is preserved but resized smaller (more than 3.3%) d) 8 bit colormap preserved Just a spot test. Your results may vary... Murray __________________________________________________________________ Murray M. Altheim, Information Systems Analyst National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling, West Virginia email: murray.altheim@nttc.edu www: http://ogopogo.nttc.edu/people/maltheim/maltheim.html
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