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Color PostScript

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From: Allan E Johannesen
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 22:59
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We have a Colormate PS printer from NEC here on demo for 1 day and I
can't seem to find a quick way to generate color Post-Script.

o  The DECstation print-screen customization has a color option in the
   menu, but it isn't selectable...

o  The pbm2ps utilitity seems to strip color information out of the
   data stream...	(I tried:

	fbcat -P < some-color-GIF | pbm2ps

		if there's something wrong with that, I'd
		appreciate advice) 

I suppose I should have been suspicious of the random utilities before
the printer arrived for testing, but that's water under the bridge.  I
don't seem to be able to generate any color test prints.  The quickest
thing I can think of is to locate some archive somewhere with some
color PostScript files on it just to see something come out of the
printer before they take it back.

Does anyone out there have anything I could use as a test print?

Please just email, this posting is probably offensive enough to
everyone; followups might generate flames.
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Subject: Color PostScript
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