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- From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Converting X color (24 bits color) image to postscript.
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- Message-ID: <6738@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:45:08 GMT
- References: <4078@sapwdf.UUCP> <1992Nov10.194925.15996@cc.umontreal.ca>
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- Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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- In article <1992Nov10.194925.15996@cc.umontreal.ca> latendrm@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Latendresse Mario) writes:
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- >I have been looking around to find a program to convert
- >images, dumped by the xwd program from a 24 bits color
- >display, into PostScript (Level 2).
-
- Well converting it to a PS file that *prints* on a level 2 printer is
- one thing. Finding a program that *uses* the level 2 features is
- another. Were you thinking of the compression or the device
- independent colour aspects of Level 2?
-
- Anyway, to make your file try:
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- xwd -nobdrs | xwdtopnm | pnmtops > file.ps (or pipe straight to your
- printer)
-
- You may want to remove gamma correction from your ppm image before
- conversion to PS (printers don't need gamma correction).
-
- Note that this process uses the simple minded (1-R)(1-G)(1-B) formula
- so the colours will be quite different in print from the screen.
-
- If you want to use the Level 2 image operator and set up a calibrated
- RGB space you will need to know the RGB and white chromaticities of
- your monitor, and its gamma.
-
- Has anyone written a program that takes a ppm file and this info and
- generates a Level 2 PostScript representation like this? I understand
- what it has to do, but wouldn't call myself a programmer.
-
-
-
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- Chris Lilley
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