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Article #8331Re: Compact data representations?
From: Timothy Freeman
Date: Tue, 02 May 1989 05:56
Date: Tue, 02 May 1989 05:56
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In article <1708@husc6.harvard.edu> nowlin@gramian.harvard.edu (Bill Nowlin) writes:
>I would like to draw many, many lines in PostScript. ...
>
>However, the resulting PostScript file is huge. ...
>
>Does PostScript allow the sending and unpacking of packed data arrays?
Well, you could use the same trick that the postscript text-printing
programs use. If a postscript program reads from its standard input,
the text comes from the file that's being printed. Your files could
look like this:
/interpreter {...} def
interpreter
... encoded bytes ...
Where the {...} is code that reads the encoded bytes from the standard
input and draws the appropriate lines. For an example, see the
Postscript cookbook or any of the Postscript text-printing programs.
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