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Article #2505Re: Postscript => Raster Image
From: Sean Malloy
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 14:08
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 14:08
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In article <138787@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> falk@peregrine.Eng.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
>In article <1990Jul11.142258.10596@eplrx7.uucp>, cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy) writes:
>> I need a program that takes Postscript and converts it directly to a
>> raster image (i.e. TIFF, GIF, etc.).
>Consequently, you can't "convert" postscript to a rasterfile. You have
>to feed the postscript file into a postscript interpreter. The only
>postscript interpreters I know of are:
< list of interpreters deleted >
LaserGo's PostScript interpreter _GoScript_ for the IBM PC and clones
will generate TIFF files from PostScript files. I _think_ it will also
make PCX files, but I don't have the manuals with me, so I'm not
sure.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!salt.acc.com!ucsd!nprdc!malloy From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Postscript => Raster Image Message-ID: <8464@skinner.nprdc.arpa> Date: 12 Jul 90 14:08:07 GMT References: <1990Jul11.142258.10596@eplrx7.uucp> <138787@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego Lines: 23