On Thursday, Oct 17, 2002, at 18:32 America/New_York, Adrian Simmons
wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> I've successfully compiled and ran autotrace on OS X (which worked
>> pretty well,
> <snip>
>> and also, if anyone is working on an OS X GUI port
> Are you aware of Frontline? If you have Xwindows running on OSX then
> you could probably compile Frontline too - but I suspect you are
> talking about an Aqua based GUI, rather than just any GUI that runs on
> OSX. I'm not aware of any.

Yeah, I hate using X11 on my mac. It's also quite a pain in the ass to
distribute X11 dependent apps.

>
>> If not, I might be inclined to do some or all of them myself :)
> I have pondered a project as a way to learn Applescript studio, a gui
> to drive the CLI version of Autotrace, perhaps getting pdf output to
> display within the gui...I don't have the time right now.

You really don't want to mess with Applescript. You can write Cocoa
apps in Python (pyobjc just became usable a mere days ago, but it works
great), or Perl (CamelBones is the bridge).. but Objective C really
isn't that tough and is probably the best way to go about it.

>
>> it might be an interesting and useful idea to make a Postscript Type
>> 1 font authoring tool using Autotrace as the backend.
> So did someone else :) PfaEdit:
> <http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/>
>
> Never tried it, but it does more than Type 1 fonts.

Again, X11 dependent.. There's quite a large potential userbase for a
nice Aqua font authoring tool that any mac user can install that works
(and, consequently, is free). I'm a unix head myself and I don't even
like using X11, I'd imagine that pretty close to zero type designers
would want to go to such lengths (when it's not really much more
painful to run old ones in classic or straight up OS9).

-bob