In article <1m91mle6mr.fsf@himalaya.cc.gatech.edu>,
yusufg@himalaya.cc.gatech.edu (Yusuf Goolamabbas) wrote:
> I am looking for similar information. I would like to conver Ink to
> either a BMP/GIF/PICT image. Is there any PD/shareware converter which
> does this already. What about the Newtons built in Print command which
> can print individual strokes to Postscript printer. Can I redirect the
> postscript to a file and convert it to EPS, then load it in xv and do
> the conversion.
>
Hi Yusuf,
If you've been following this thread and others in the past...no,no,no.
Digital Ink is proprietary.
Also, what goes to your Postscript printer is most likely postscript
commands (unless, I guess, its preprocessed and just bitmaps are sent
over). I wonder if any driver programmers have ported this over to a PC,
too, but I doubt it.
Otherwise, you have a few options:
1) can skip digital ink and collect arrays of points instead (see PIE
sample code)
2) converting the ink into pictures. NCK will export pictures using
Native export format (essentially, they're binary objects "text"-ualized)
3) NCK will support the transporting of digital ink into it's own browser
but ONLY through the notepad. From the browser you can cut and paste the
image to another app (on the Mac it will be PICT) OR NCK includes some
translators to export the notepad to some wellknown apps like Word, etc.
Sincerely,
Alan Drogin
SirenPro for Digital Objectives
NYC
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