[ale] OpenOffice Draw for Site Maps?

[Geoffrey]

Ed Cashin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>> On Thu January 29 2009, Brian Pitts wrote:
>>> Can visio work with postscript or svg? I haven't used it; just curious.
>> I have no idea what SVG is, and I'm not sure how you mean postscript. Isn't
>> that a printing device? Are you saying print it to Postscript, and what? I
>> would still need to RUN it to print, which still means windows.
> 
> PostScript is a programming language that can tell display
> devices and printers what to do just like it can tell a computer
> to do other stuff.  It's unusual in that it has postfix syntax, like
> forth, so that instead of saying "a + b", you say, "a b +".

Before anyone notes my error in calling postscript a file format, the 
above is actually a correct answer. ;)  Not much thought put to posting 
that one.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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