Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!datapg!sewilco
From: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Structured Graphics Standard
Message-ID: <1863@datapg.MN.ORG>
Date: 27 Sep 88 22:32:53 GMT
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In article <5079@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> smann@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann - I.S.er) writes:
:
:I believe that the standard already exists.  I read a couple of years ago in
:B*TE about a graphics standard called _North American Presentation Level 
:Protocol Syntax_ (NAPLPS).  The standard was to be used as on both high level
:graphics machines as well as lo-res terminals, included ways of encoding lines,
...

NAPLPS is very nice for what it is intended, which is input and output of
graphics and text.  But it is not intended for storage.  Why is this a problem?
Well, how are you going to send your NAPLPS image to me?  There's no provision
for labeling pages, images, nor objects.  I suppose we could agree on some
standard meaning for certain NAPLPS macro definitions.

I have the preliminary spec around here someplace.
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