- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 18:22:03 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 3:27p -1000 12/07/96, Joel N. Weber II wrote:
>It occurs to me that the problem with postscript is that the language
>is so complex that you can use it to generate a bitmap, but not
>much else. A vector-based editing program would probably need
>something more like CGM.
>
>Is CGM the ideal vector format, or should a new one be designed?
Apple's 3DMF (3D MetaFile) [1] has already been provided [2] to the
Internet community; not much point in expending time on 2D formats now.
Source code for parsing 3DMF is available on the 'net [3] for Windows,
MacOS, and Unix platforms.
[1] <http://quickdraw3d.apple.com/Futures.HTML>
[2] <http://quickdraw3d.apple.com/QD3DMetaFile/3DMetafileRefTOC.html>
[3] <http://quickdraw3d.apple.com/Parser.HTML>
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Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript,
Mountain View, CA ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML
http://www.natural-innovations.com/ Musician - Guitarist, Songwriter
Received on Saturday, 7 December 1996 21:23:34 UTC