I'm not sure this is a case of SIMPLE graphics. What Windows program
can hndle the job that you want?
It is easy to create what you want with PostScript by editing it directly,
or using, say, Perl to read in your text files and create PS files that
print beautifully. You can also work the problem somewhat interactively
by checking you progress using Ghostview. But if you want WYSIWYG
and interactive applications, I'm not sure what the solution is. I have had
good luck with xfig, but if you are working with a LOT of data, writing
your own PS filter is the way to go in my opinion. I have done that for
three major data sets that I have worked with in the last six years
and it has been a BIG payoff (producing thousands of beautiful,
published figures at the push of a button).
Tom Browder
-----Original Message-----
From: patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'KDE general mailing list' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 10:15 PM
Subject: Need a good vector drawing app
>I am having a HELL of a time with what should be really simple
>graphics work.
>
>I have a text file containing aligned text (scientific data),
>that is, it is essentially ascii. I need to annotate this
>text with various graphics and enclose some of the text in
>colored or shaded boxes.
>
>I have Killustrator, tgif, staroffice, and xpaint. NONE of
>these apps can handle this SIMPLE task. Killustrator only
>accepts *.kil format files and will not import text. Staroffice
>is essentially useless because it can't properly format the
>text - because it doesn't have any monospaced fonts available
>(what's up with that?!). tgif will accept ps, eps, and a few
>other formats, and it is this app that I have been fighting
>with all day. I THOUGHT it was going to work but it ends up
>screwing up the output so as to make the app useless. The
>problem:
>
>I had a simple text file that NO graphics app can import or
>use. I had to open it in netscape and print it to a file
>in postscript format. I then used pstoedit to convert the
>ps file into a native tgif *.obj file. I can now open up
>the file in tgif and on the screen it looks great. I can
>even annotate the text and create boxes, etc. When it comes
>time to print, however, the printer output is not what is
>on the screen. I may have a box on the screen properly
>drawn around certain text on the screen, but the printer
>output has the box in a different, slightly offset position.
>
>This is a serious flaw...you cannot trust the screen image
>to match what the printer produces. In addition, though the
>text looks to be nicely placed on the page on the screen,
>the position of the text on the printer output has little
>bearing to the image. Instead of being centered, the text
>is packed up nice and tight to the top of the paper with
>some text cutoff as a result.
>
>Basically, I can't find any graphics tools for linux that
>can handle really simple graphics work.
>
>IS THERE ANY graphics app available for linux that can
>actually import ascii text (not just ps, not eps, not latex,
>etc) and have the graphics and placement on the screen
>actually match reality when you print?
>
>This is a serious problem for me in being able to use
>linux. I am close to the point of having to do serious
>writing and publishing work on windows as a result of
>this.
>
>Please tell me there is another way.
>
>patrick
>
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