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Re: Painting an Image: beginner's questions

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From: Helge Blischke
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:29
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jdaw1 wrote:

> In a bit more than a decade of occasional PostScript programming, I
> have never needed to paint a bitmap image. For the first time, I do.
> 
> Are there standard routines for images in common formats (e.g., any of
> PNG, GIF, JPG)? Rephrased, is there a standard snippet of PostScript
> that my code can use to render a local file (e.g., example.png or
> example.gif or example.jpg) onto the current page?
> 
> The image itself will probably start as JPG, but can be
> GraphicConverter'd into any standard format. Further I understand that
> the code might need to know a few things, such as the image size, but
> I'm happy to add that 'manually'.
> 
> Thank you.

I came across this thread only today. If you still need a solution to your 
problem, I have a set of PostScript procedures for directly processing a 
several image formats (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS). Drop me an e-mail if you are 
interested (h dot blischke at acm dot org).

Helge
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