[GTALUG] Software to draw illustrations?

[Matthew Gordon]

Yes; I don't know if the Emacs thing was meant as a joke, but Postscript is
human readable and if you need to generate a bunch of something relatively
simple then just writing a script that spits out PS is often the easiest
way to do it. I've used that approach for generating place-cards for a
company dinner and for end-of-year tax receipts for a non-profit.

That being said, it sounds like Inkscape is more what the OP is looking for.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:15 PM mwilson--- via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> > 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.
>
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