[TUHS] dwb picasso

[Michael Kerpan]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Cyrille Lefevre
<cyrille.lefevre-lists at laposte.net> wrote:
>
> Le 25/05/2011 00:19, Steve Simon a écrit :
>
> well, too big message held on queue canceled, repost w/ attachment.
>
>> 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=dwb
>
> 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

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