Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal (IFF QuickDraw)
Message-ID: <1972@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 88 19:04:28 GMT
References: <4607@super.upenn.edu>
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In article <4607@super.upenn.edu>, ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ranjit 
Bhatnagar) writes that we need an IFF standard for images defined as
display lists and proposes Quickdraw.  In Apple's litigious mood, I
believe this would guarantee a lawsuit.  The request for more graphics
operations such as rounded rectangle seems reasonable.  I also agree
that adherence to and support of some kind of display list-based drawing 
standard is desirable, for all the reasons that have made PostScript so
popular.  Perhaps Display PostScript is the answer, as Steve Jobs thinks?
On the other hand, too, the idea of knocking something out and having it,
soon, is appealing.  It would have to be display resolution independent
of course.

Aegis Draw has a display list based, pannable, zoomable environment (and
file format, tho' I don't know if it's published or anything) and one
only needs to try it out to discover the down side of all this: Display
list based drawing is  s l o w.
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