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Article #7752Re: what about color laser printers?
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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1988 20:20
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1988 20:20
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In article <627@rocksanne.UUCP> rainero@rocksanne.UUCP (Emil Rainero) writes: >(Emil's Psychic Forecast for 1989) >It is interesting to note that even with 24 or 32 bit color images, there is >no built-in support for compression. (please, no flames about writing it in >PostScript). With the proliferation of compression/decompression chips, >I would expect to see further extensions from Adobe. It seems to me that it would be pretty hard and possibly unrewarding to design a compression/decompression scheme which would turn ASCII text into ASCII text (remember that one of the fundamental ideas behind PostScript is that PS programs are strictly ASCII, thus enhancing portability) without causing any random breakage in the way the PS interpreter reads the image. Perhaps something like "compress the image then uuencode" would work, but I wouldn't bet on it myself, I'm no Glenn Reid (and neither is Brian :-). The final word, anybody? Phil Kos uunet!pyrdc!osiris!phil The Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ncar!ames!haven!aplcen!osiris!consult From: consult@osiris.UUCP (Unix Consultation Mailbox ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: what about color laser printers? Keywords: LaserWriter, PostScript Message-ID: <2746@osiris.UUCP> Date: 20 Dec 88 20:20:33 GMT References: <1667@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <113@adobe.COM> <627@rocksanne.UUCP> Reply-To: consult@osiris.UUCP (Unix Consultation Mailbox (Phil)) Organization: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Information Systems Lines: 17