Re: [Closed REQ 6057]: printing from geomview

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> I am not clear about printing from Geomview to a postscript file, or file 
> to import to other formats. I hope that you have some plans for such an 
> export, so that out put can be printed to a high quality.

The latest version of geomview does have a built-in Postscript output facility,
which retains most appearance properties.  It does have a couple of limitations
which may bother you, though: it doesn't attempt to do smooth shading
(since Postscript doesn't support it) and its hidden-surface removal
depends on simply sorting features by depth and drawing them back-to-front,
which often works but can be wildly wrong.

There's also a built-in software renderer which can produce arbitrary-sized
PPM images; generating a large image, then resizing it smaller, can produce
a high-quality though bulky result.

If, as your mail header suggests, you're using a DEC Alpha, you can get a
current copy of geomview from

   ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/geomview-161b8-alpha.tar.gz

Other versions -- for Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, SGI, Linux, as well as
sources -- are available in the same directory.