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In article <1992Nov10.194925.15996@cc.umontreal.ca> latendrm@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Latendresse Mario) writes:

>I have been looking around to find a program to convert
>images, dumped by the xwd program from a 24 bits color
>display, into PostScript (Level 2).

Well converting it to a PS file that *prints* on a level 2 printer is
one thing. Finding a program that *uses* the level 2 features is
another. Were you thinking of the compression or the device
independent colour aspects of Level 2?

Anyway, to make your file try:

xwd -nobdrs | xwdtopnm | pnmtops > file.ps (or pipe straight to your
printer)

You may want to remove gamma correction from your ppm image before
conversion to PS (printers don't need gamma correction).

Note that this process uses the simple minded (1-R)(1-G)(1-B) formula
so the colours will be quite different in print from the screen.

If you want to use the Level 2 image operator and set up a calibrated
RGB space you will need to know the RGB and white chromaticities of
your monitor, and its gamma. 

Has anyone written a program that takes a ppm file and this info and
generates a Level 2 PostScript representation like this? I understand
what it has to do, but wouldn't call myself a programmer.




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Chris Lilley
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