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Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:Online Bookbuilding
Notice:This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:VAXUUM::UTT
Created:Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:440
Total number of notes:2134

125.0. "Creating art work." by BISTRO::KIRK (Beam me up, Scotty!) Fri May 05 1989 08:26

Is there a program similar to PSART that will take a text file and convert it 
into line graphics for use with the Bookreader, by any chance, please?

If not, what do you use to create line drawings?

Thanks,
Richard
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125.1VAXUUM::UTTSat May 06 1989 15:2914
    We use the RAGS graphics editor to create line drawings and other
    online art. (We use UTOX for screen capture.) There are some notes
    elsewhere in this notes conference about various ways of converting
    some graphics format (say, PostScript) to a format the Bookreader
    likes. (The Bookreader likes RAGS metafiles and FSE bitmaps.)
    
    If what you have is a *very* simple ASCII file, you can enclose
    the artwork with the <line_art>/<endline_art> tags and the Bookreader
    will display it (but it won't be any prettier than it would be on a
    character-cell terminal).
    
    Hope this helps.
    
    Mary
125.2Thanks, I hope to save time.BISTRO::KIRKBeam me up, Scotty!Sat May 06 1989 16:238
    Thanks for your reply, Mary. At the moment I have some text files that
    I process with PSART to create Postscript files that look better that
    plain text graphics, so to speak. I would like to be able to process
    the same files for both the Book reader & LN03, without having to
    re-create them all, if I can.
    
    Cheers,
    Richard
125.3JANUS::JUBBAlison, DTN: 830-6779, REO2-GD8Fri Jan 25 1991 08:206
    I too am interested in using the source files for PSART to create diagrams
    for the Bookreader (again, to save some time).  Is this possible to do, or
    would we need to recreate the diagrams using a tool that will let us
    produce fonts big enough to view on the Bookreader.

    Alison
125.4VAXUUM::UTTMary UttMon Jan 28 1991 08:487
    You can use the method outlined in note 50.6 to convert PostScript
    graphics to FSE binaries.
    
    Bookreader V3.0 will display EPS graphics: see note 394.* for details
    and caveats.
    
    Mary