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Article #1376Re: PostScript beginner needs help with "image" command
From: Tomas G. Rokicki
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 05:43
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 05:43
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> The basic problem with this approach is that the
> {< . . . >}
> code sequence is placing a hexadecimal string on the stack.
> Strings are limited in length to 65535 bytes (documented on
> page 260 of my Red Book). When you have a 256 x 256 x 4
> bit image, this translates into 32768 bytes of data, and
> when you double that (two hex characters per byte) you have
Just a minor nit. Actually, the <...> syntax requires 2n+2 bytes
to represent a string of length n, but that string requires only
n bytes (plus 8 or so overhead) inside of the printer. So you
can have a string of length 65535 represented with 131072 input
bytes with no troubles.
In other words, the string
<0001020304050607>
requires only eight bytes (plus some minor overhead) inside the
printer . . .
-tom
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!decwrl!shelby!polya!rokicki From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PostScript beginner needs help with "image" command Keywords: image bitmap postscript Message-ID: <12886@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 27 Nov 89 05:43:00 GMT References: <9790@saturn.ucsc.edu> <128392@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Distribution: na Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 22