Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!ames!oliveb!sun!sears From: sears@sun.uucp (Daniel Sears) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Autocad -. PostScript??? Summary: AutoScript PostScript utility for AutoCAD Message-ID: <79061@sun.uucp> Date: 28 Nov 88 01:03:18 GMT References: <18218@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU. <693@optilink.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA Lines: 31 The current release of AutoCAD generates PostScript. The chief problem with it is that AutoCAD treats the PostScript device like a plotter. Therefore instead of using even the built-in PostScript fonts AutoCAD generates primitive stick fonts. This is both inefficient and ugly. Our production department had to resort to manually pasting text over the callouts in AutoCAD drawings before going to print. Fortunately, we found an AutoCAD add-on product from Preco Industries called AutoScript. Product: AutoScript Contact: Evelyn Miller Phone: 916.541.0066 Company: Preco Industries Address: 9501 Dice Lane Lenexa, Kansas 66215 Price: ~ $800 The original version of AutoScript was written in AutoLisp and it is *slow*, much like AutoCAD itself. It generates PostScript that uses the built-in fonts and also downloadable fonts. Recently, they have rewritten AutoScript in C and it should be much faster. When I was looking at AutoScript, the C version was only available for MS-DOS. They may have since ported it to SunOS. -- Daniel Sears Sun Microsystems, Inc. Technical Publications MS 5-42 (415) 336-7435 2550 Garcia Avenue sears@sun.com Mountain View, CA 94043