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Article #7902Re: Bitmap decompression in PostScript?
From: Ken Dykes
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1989 07:30
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1989 07:30
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In article <10529@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@helios.ee.lbl.gov> writes:
>encoding. However, for all but the slowest printer links, this is slightly
>slower than sending the raw bitmap. The decrease in transmission time
>is slightly more than compensated for by the increase in processing time.
>
The thing is, with me, I dont care how long the PRINTER takes, but
i dont like the LINE tied-up, ie: I am willing to have the printer glow
red hot doing computing I just want quicker transmit times.
This is because my gutless pc cannot DO ANYTHING ELSE while doing transmission
(well it can, then it slows transmission to the point of "time-out errors")
..Just a viewpoint on the value of marginal compression.
-ken
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!kgdykes From: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Bitmap decompression in PostScript? Message-ID: <23360@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 31 Jan 89 07:30:14 GMT References: <432@skep2.ATT.COM> <10529@well.UUCP> Reply-To: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) Organization: S.D.G. UofWaterloo Lines: 17