26 May
2011
26 May
'11
3:44 a.m.
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Cyrille Lefevre
<cyrille.lefevre-lists(a)laposte.net> wrote:
Le 25/05/2011 00:19, Steve Simon a écrit :
well, too big message held on queue canceled, repost w/ attachment.
This looks like the batch version of Picasso rather than the
interactive version. Clearly the basic engine is there, but it looks
like the fun part (the GUI) is MIA.
Mike
Anyone remember picasso, a vector graphics GUI
app
that generated pic(1) source?
picasso seems to be part of the DocumentWorkBench which is now freely
available from AT&T Software Technology :
http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/cgi-bin/download.cgi?action=list&name…
here is the manual page :
PICASSO(1) UNIX System V (DWB 3.2) PICASSO(1)
NAME
picasso - a line drawing program
SYNOPSIS
picasso [ -bsize -Fpath -Tfonttables -Ipath -ln -Mn -mmargin
-pmxn -txL ] [ - ] [ files ]
DESCRIPTION
picasso is a processor for a pic-like drawing language that
produces PostScript output. By default, this output is
scaled to fit an 8 by 10 inch print area, and centered on
the page.
...
compiles well under cygwin w/ the following patch :
ftp://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/dwb/dwb.1993-02-04.patch.bz2