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> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 19 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. -- "Now here's something you're really going to like!" -- Rocket J. Squirrel ..!{bellcore!tness1,uunet!nuchat}!sugar!karl, Unix BBS (713) 438-5018