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#Structured Graphics

#: 98747 S8/Amiga at WorkForum unknown
    17-Dec-87 22:19:06
Fm: Peter N. Grace 72060,1133
To: Aegis Development 76067,2500

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I am afraid that I dont understand what you mean. Are you saying that a program that has a graphic representation of whats on the screen, cannot be represented in a structured graphic? Hmm.. What I am talking about, to try and be clearer, is very much what you said. an icon bar with objects to click on, and object oriented drawing tools. However, the final product would be a structured graphic, exactly the same way that DrawPlus graphics are, with Postscript support. This sort of thing will come out for the Amiga eventually, it has to if its going to contend in desktop publishing. I agree with the present resolutions, and the present monitor, DTP isnt as nice as on a Mac or a PC with EGA, but we all know that Commodore is just a few short steps away from making that limitation disappear. With this in mind, who will be the lucky company to make a good Postscript/structured graphics illustration package? The formula is easy! Use the same types of tools found in DPaint II (I am sure even Aegis won't argue the success of that product) and make it something that everyone into DTP on the Amiga will want…because it supports Postscript. I am unclear of what you mean about the bitmaps…can you be a bit more specific on what appears to be a limitation?