March 2003
For those users who need to take hardcopy management a step
further, Tigress recommends using a dedicated plotting utility
such as JustCGM from Justcroft.
JustCGM allows users to view and plot a variety of image
formats, including CGM+ and CGM*PIP files. The image previewer
provides tools to manipulate the image, including zoom, rotate and
scale. The image can be saved to various popular bitmap formats
such as TIFF, PNG, and JPEG or to the vector PDF format.
It has a true ‘what you see is what you get’ (WYSIWYG) preview
for plots, and comes with drivers for all major hardcopy devices
(HP, Postscript, OYO, Versatec etc.).
Additional features include line joining and fill joining. In
both cases short line segments or small colour fill triangles,
present in some CGM files, can be merged, optimising the file, and
greatly reducing the file size. This is especially useful if the
image is to be taken into a drawing package, or even a Word
document.
The next release from Justcroft will extend the plot management
capability through the introduction of a plot montaging
tool.
Tigress is a reseller of this software and can provide the
JustCGM package as part of our installation service on both Unix
and Linux operating systems.
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