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In article <0105002B.mcu7to@digtype.airage.com> Jeff Wasilko,
Jeff@digtype.airage.com writes:
>How are LZW-compressed TIFFs handled in Postscript (I'm thinking of
>a compressed TIFF placed in a Quark XPress document)?
>
>How is the image uncompressed? Is the decompression routine included
>in the postscript, or can the PS interpreter deal with the compressed
>image directly? How fast will the decompression run on a Linotype
>RIP 4 (a 68020)?

For level 1, the TIFF is uncompressed by XPress (then clipped & 
re-rezzed, btw) and send. Level 2 can decompress them, but I'm not sure 
if Quark does that yet.

>I'm wondering if the savings in disk storage and transfer time (the
>RIP 4 is on LocalTalk) will be lost in decompression time at the
>RIP?

Yes, assuming it uses level 2 for decompression, no if it doesn't.

Manuel