[GTALUG] Software to draw illustrations?

[mwilson at Vex.Net]

> If you can write Forth, you can write PS.
>
> I also generate PS with other programs.

Exactly.  I'd used it as a poor-mans CAD package (
http://melwilsonsoftware.ca/psfiles/whitenoise-panel.ps ).  It's an
excellent way to get pixel-level control of printed matter, and that's
around 1/300" on ink-jet printers.
For my big use, membership cards from a database, it was Python
program->Postscript program->Ghostscript rendering->printer.  Your
favorite HLL could replace Python.