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Re: broken PostScript for colorimage

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From: Ali Ozer
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1992 01:02
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In article <1992Apr3.072512.22668@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes:
>In article <3414@rosie.NeXT.COM> aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer) writes:
>>3.0 writes the data inline (as binary if possible) and reads it with
>>readhexstring; this solves the VM problem.
>It seems to me that the current method would be superior for very
>small images (e.g. icons) where VM consumption isn't the issue.
>Speed and performance are important!!

Yeah, except most printers don't garbage collect, and if you happen to
write out a dozen or so "small" images, you might still eat up a
significant piece of the PostScript VM available in the printer.

Ali
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From: aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: broken PostScript for colorimage
Message-ID: <3490@rosie.NeXT.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 92 01:02:35 GMT
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