cwensley / pablodraw

PabloDraw is an Ansi/Ascii text and RIPscrip vector graphic art editor/viewer with multi-user capabilities.
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NAPLPS Support #96

Open pheller opened 10 months ago

pheller commented 10 months ago

Support for the old NAPLPS vector graphics standard would be fantastic. There are almost no extant tools to author and only a couple to even view graphics in this format.

References:

A relatively concise description - http://www.martinreddy.net/gfx/2d/NAP.txt The ANSI Standards document - https://archive.org/details/federalinformati121nati

A very old Java viewer - https://github.com/n1ckfg/Telidon/tree/master/third_party/ajwm-naplps

(elsewhere in the aforementioned github, there is a Javascript renderer)

Ideally, support for this format would be accompanied by some modern conveniences, like layers that can be independently shown or hidden, and a mechanism for a read-only raster layer and configurable layer opacity (to assist in tracing and recreating NAPLPS from raster images scanned from books, etc.)