🚀 go-pugleaf

Because of the relative slowness of graphic creation, 
I did my (3 by 4") mailing labels by consing up a border form, replicating it
6 times and printing the page out multiple times with #copies.
(Unfortunately, the (avery) label glue seems not to be able to
withstand multiple passes through the printer's heat circuits!)
It would be nice to have the complex image stored as a bitblt-able
image stamp!

BitBlt is, of course, exactly isomorphic to my original query
on on previewing! If you could indexed-read the screen memory
into bitmaps, you can send the bitmaps home.

I get the feeling Woody really solved it, but is bound by oath (or
capitalism) to not fully let it loose.

However, given a good bitblt, his other gripe, the 7 versus 8-bit
problem might be elegantly solved using speedy built-in image scaling:
Take each group of 7 bytes and send them (using \nnn as nec) as a
64-bit wide image, padded in such a fashion that when it is scaled to
7/8th of its width (to 56 bits) and imaged in a new bitmap, the
bits that dissappear were just padding. You can then read out 7 bytes
from each row of the array.

Along with Woody, I guess I also view postscript as
my long-sought-after write-only replacement for APL!
Seems like we could start discussing the design of a general array
package for postscript...

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