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<title>Graphics Muse
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These pages are designed by Michael J. Hammel. Permission to
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use all graphics and other content is granted provided you give
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me (or the original authors/artists) credit for the work and this
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copyright notice is not removed.
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(c)1997, 1998 Michael J. Hammel (mjhammel@graphics-muse.org)
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<br><img SRC="images/musings.jpg" height=50 width=245>
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<td ALIGN=RIGHT WIDTH="100%"><font size=-2>© 1999 <a href="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org">Michael
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J. Hammel</a></font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="#Impress Followup">Impress
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Follow-up</a></font></font></td>
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<td><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>more musings...</font></font></b></td>
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<hr SIZE=1 NOSHADE WIDTH="100%">
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<br><a NAME="Impress Followup"></a><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>Impress
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Follow-up</font></font></b>
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<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Chris Cox dropped me a note
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to clarify a few points from my Impress article last month:</font></font>
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<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>My permanent email is <a href="mailto:cjcox@acm.org">cjcox@acm.org,</a>
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not ccox@acm.org (hope ccox@acm.org doesn't get too much mail).</font></font>
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<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The Dinosaur is Steve Cowden's
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dinosaur he did using Aldus Freehand. It's copyrighted....I tried
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to contact him about using it....hope there's no problem. In the
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impress_complete package there's a tool called epsfilt and one called pstoedit
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(you can actually download the latest copy from its home site....it has
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my mods already). You can take EPS to Tk using these tools:</font></font>
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<blockquote><tt><font size=-1>$ epsfilt <myfile.ai >myfile.eps
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# imperfect tool, may have to hand edit!</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=-1>$ pstoedit -f tk myfile.eps myfile.tk</font></tt></blockquote>
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<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Then just open the myfile.tk
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in ImPress. ImPress doesn't handle clipping regions though....so
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the neat dithering stuff you find in commercial packages won't work.</font></font>
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<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Larry Ewing's penguin was
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converted to Postscript by somebody (?). I have since imported a
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better one by using Adobe Streamline running under Wine to convert the
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actual raster penguin to vector format. The postscript one scales
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better than the one converted from the raster image though.</font></font>
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<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Another thing you might want
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to try (though people question its practical implications) is to download
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the Tcl/Tk plugin from <a href="http://www.scriptics.com">www.scriptics.com
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</a>and
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install it into a Netscape browser under Linux. Then edit the plugin.cfg
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file as indicated in the documentation to allow you to load a tclet from
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<a href="http://www.ntlug.org">www.ntlug.org
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</a>and
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you can then execute the demo showing a document being retrieved off the
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web for editing inside a web browser. It can be saved to any local
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disk (which could be a samba mounted area for example). (there are
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some Netscape bugs which prevent "saving" from working real well)</font></font>
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<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Thanks for taking the time
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to look at it,</font></font>
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<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Chris Cox</font></font>
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<td ALIGN=RIGHT><font size=-2>© 1999 by <a href="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org">Michael
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J. Hammel</a></font></td>
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