Well, I never said PS was a suitable format for eding now did I? I intended
to use it for swapping pictures of drawings as an alternative to PDF or jpg.
If you want to swap editable drawings you should really agree on the editor
and swap in the native format.
Sander
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sander Pool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "ERPS Main List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [ERPS] CAD programs
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Sander Pool wrote:
> > So what you are saying is that PS printers can not be used to print
> > technical drawings?
>
> No, Michael's point is that PS is a printer language, not a drawing
> description language. For example, the fact that a number occurs between
> a pair of arrows is just a coincidence in PS -- nothing in the PS version
> tells you that it is a dimension, much less *what* it's a dimension of.
> (You can add structure within PS to convey that sort of thing, but almost
> nobody does.)
>
> PS is the electronic equivalent of paper: it's the final output, of
> interest only to a human looking at it. For that, it's excellent. But
> it's not suitable as a format for humans to *work* on.
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