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Article #5997Re: Generating bitmaps from Ghostscript
From: Jos Vos
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 15:32
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 15:32
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In article <89.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com> ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch) writes:
>It may simply be that Ghostscript takes a long time to write the
>image. The code for dumping out the bitmap in this case is written
>in PostScript, and is quite slow.
Yep. It took about 7 (!!!) minutes to see the first byte in the file...
But the problem is already solved: yesterday evening I wrote two own
drivers, one test driver for getting the bitmap and one driver for my
non-standard laserprinter. And it works.
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