Re: [techtalk] A Postscript question

2000-07-13 Thread Helena Verrill
Well, I've done a little postscript programing in the past (it's a fun language to program in directly, but usually more practical to write c programs to produce postscript output). I never tried editing an image before, but I just had a go at your question, because I wanted to know what the ans

Re: [techtalk] A Postscript question

2000-07-13 Thread Amanda Owens
Actually, that's what I ended up doing - using xfig. In a couple of different ways. But it looks to have turned out well in the end. The reason my boss wanted to do the postscript markup was so that when the image was scaled, the text would scale right along with it. Oh well. Popping the jpg int

Re: [techtalk] A Postscript question

2000-07-13 Thread T. E. Pickering
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:02:20PM -0400, Fan, Laurel wrote: > Amanda Owens, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > > I have a photo that started out as a jpg or gif or something, but has been > > turned (via gimp or xv) into a .ps file. What my boss wants me to do is > > now edit that postscript file, and in

RE: [techtalk] A Postscript question

2000-07-13 Thread Fan, Laurel
Amanda Owens, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > I have a photo that started out as a jpg or gif or something, but has been > turned (via gimp or xv) into a .ps file. What my boss wants me to do is > now edit that postscript file, and insert some lines and text. Is it > possible? If so, how? If I underst

Re: [techtalk] A Postscript question

2000-07-13 Thread Dan Nguyen
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:19:34PM -0400, Amanda Owens wrote: > I have a photo that started out as a jpg or gif or something, but has been > turned (via gimp or xv) into a .ps file. What my boss wants me to do is > now edit that postscript file, and insert some lines and text. Is it > possible? If

[techtalk] A Postscript question

2000-07-13 Thread Amanda Owens
I have minimal experience with postscript... scripting - all the postscript files I've created have been generated by other programs (word processors, the GIMP, etc). I have some exposure to the... language? but not much. I have a book and I've been hunting the web to see if there's any informatio