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In article <1992Dec14.212044.24566@adobe.com> asente@adobe.com (A Usenet Pal) writes:
>In article <zisk-111292153206@macne010.boston.us.adobe.com> zisk@adobe.com (Stephen Zisk) writes:
>>In article <MSL9EGP@math.fu-berlin.de>, beck@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de
>>(Andre Beck) wrote:
>>> How do I get a 1280x1024 pixel image that uses less than 256 colors
>>> on the display WITHOUT any dithering ? In other words, how can I force
>>> the XDPS system to allocate new colors ?
>>
>>Preface: I am not a DPS expert, but I do have a manual in front of me,
>>so here goes, and watch out for the trees!
>
>Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain :-)
>
>The exact behavior is implementation dependent, but the reality is that
>Level 1 implementations of DPS always use halftones in images.  There is
>no way to avoid the dithering.  Level 2 systems, which will be coming out
>eventually, will not have this limitation.

EVENTUALLY?  Sorry, NeXT has it TODAY. :-)

NeXTSTEP 3.0 includes Display PostScript Level 2, with Pantone color matching.
It just works! (tm).  It also does CMYK, RGBA, etc.  Which also means that my
laser printer, and any dumb device that will accept a bitmap from my machine
effectively becomes PostScript Level 2!

Buy a NeXT. :-)


Chris