Path: igor.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!not-for-mail From: juo@paul.rutgers.edu (John Oleynick) Newsgroups: ru.nb.dcs.announce,ru.comp.qa.publisher Subject: The Publisher's pubdraw and pubpaint going away Followup-To: ru.comp.qa.publisher Date: 15 Mar 1995 12:25:30 -0500 Organization: Rutgers University LCSR Lines: 152 Approved: juo@paul.rutgers.edu Distribution: ru Message-ID: <3k77ua$4sc@paul.rutgers.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: paul.rutgers.edu Xref: igor.rutgers.edu ru.nb.dcs.announce:681 ru.comp.qa.publisher:14 ArborText is no longer supporting their PubDraw and PubPaint programs in The Publisher. If you have any PubDraw or PubPaint figures in your Publisher documents you must convert them into IslandDraw and IslandPaint figures. ArborText provides tools to do this but they are only available in older versions of the Publisher that run under SunOS 4 (ArborText actually dropped support for PubDraw a long time ago but we haven't installed a new version of The Publisher for over 4 years and the 3 year old version of the Publisher that can convert PubDraw and PubPaint figures only runs under SunOS 4). A version of The Publisher that can convert PubDraw and PubPaint figures into IslandDraw and IslandPaint is now installed on the DCS Faculty machines. If you are using The Publisher on the DCS Faculty machines, instructions for converting your documents are below. If you are using The Publisher on the DCS Graduate machines and also have an account on the DCS Faculty machines, you can copy your files to the DCS Faculty machines, convert them, and then copy them back to the DCS Graduate machines. If you are using The Publisher on the DCS Graduate machines but don't have an account on the DCS Faculty machines, send mail to `help@paul' and someone will convert your files for you (please do this by March 31). If you are using The Publisher on any other machines, you'll have to ask your system administrator to install a version of The Publisher that can convert PubDraw and PubPaint figures (make sure they do this before upgrading to Solaris since there is no way to convert figures using the version of The Publisher available for Solaris). If you have any questions about this, please send them to `help@paul'. Here are ArborText's directions for converting PubDraw and PubPaint figures into IslandDraw and IslandPaint figures: The convert_pub_graphics command alias can be used to convert all PubDraw and PubPaint graphics in your documents for use with IslandDraw and IslandPaint. PubDraw must be installed on your system in order for this command to work. To convert your graphics, from within The Publisher type convert_pub_graphics in the Command Subwindow. New .drw (for IslandDraw) and .tif (for IslandPaint) files will be created for every graphic used in the document, and style sheets will be updated to reflect the change in graphics processors. Double-clicking the left mouse button on the graphic image in the Edit Window now brings up the new graphics processor. Informational messages about graphic files being converted are printed in the window from which you started the Publisher. PubPaint graphics are converted completely. However, for PubDraw graphics additional steps are required. After a PubDraw graphics is initially converted, the following message appears in its place: Partially converted PubDraw graphic. Open and Save with IslandDraw to complete conversion If you have installed IslandDraw already and have set up the environment variable IOFFICE as described in the installation instructions for IslandDraw and IslandPaint [do a `setenv IOFFICE /usr/ioffice_4.0' before running publisher -- John], you will now be able to bring up IslandDraw on a graphic by double-clicking on the box representing the graphic in the Publisher Editor. Once you are in IslandDraw, saving the graphic and exiting IslandDraw completes the conversion and causes the fully converted graphic to appear in the Publisher Editor. When you are confident that you no longer need the old PubDraw and PubPaint versions of your graphics, you should remove them from your file system. Both types of files are frequently kept in document subdirectories. The files for PubDraw graphics end in a .vec extension. Those for PubPaint end in .pic. Note: Graphics in tables will not be converted by convert_pub_graphics. You will need to use the manual conversion process described below on such graphics. Converting graphics manually Your Publisher distribution includes the two filters that are used to convert existing PubDraw and PubPaint graphics to the formats used by IslandDraw and IslandPaint. You Will need to use these filters to convert any graphics that are not part of a Publisher document. The first is called pub2idraw. It converts graphics in PubDraw format (the old graphic format supported by The Publisher) to the new IslandDraw format. In order to use this filter, PubDraw must be installed on your system. The second is called bm2tiff. It converts any bitmap -- including bitmaps in EPS files, Sun rasterfiles, X bitmaps, and .pic bitmaps generated by PubPaint or PubDraw -- to TIFF (Tagged Image File Format). pub2idraw To use the pub2idraw filter standalone, type: pub2idraw oldfile newfile where oldfile is the name of the PubDraw file that you wish to convert (PubDraw filenames typically have a .vec extension) and newfile is the name of the graphic in IslandDraw format (we recommend giving this file a .drw extension). For example, to convert the PubDraw graphic engine.vec for use with IslandDraw, you would type: pub2idraw engine.vec engine.drw This would create the new file engine.drw which contains the converted graphic in IslandDraw format. To make the graphic appear up in a Publisher document, on the style sheet for the graphic tag, you will need to supply both the proper .drw file name and a processor name of IslandDraw. When you are confident that you no longer need the PubDraw version of the graphic, you should remove it from your file system. Note that this filter converts graphics for editing purposes only; in order to be able to print or view the graphic, you must first load it into IslandDraw and then save it. bm2tiff To use the bm2tiff filter standalone to convert a PubPaint graphic to the format used by IslandDraw (i.e., TIFF), type: bm2tiff oldfile newfile where oldfile is the name of the PubPaint file that you wish to convert (PubPaint filenames typically have a .pic extension) and newfile is the name for the graphic in TIFF for use by IslandPaint (we recommend giving this file a .tif extension). For example, to convert the PubPaint graphic menu.pic for use with IslandPaint, you would type: bm2tiff menu.pic menu.tif This would create the new file menu.tif which contains the converted graphic in TIFF. To Make the graphic appear up in a Publisher document, on the style sheet for the graphic tag, you will need to supply both the proper .tif file name and a processor name of IslandPaint. When you are confident that you no longer need the PubPaint version of the graphic, you should remove it from your file system.