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- From: mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
- Subject: Re: gif to printer and standard os9 format!!!
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 18:08:32 GMT
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- In article <1hfejtINN3uf@tamsun.tamu.edu> rlm7638@tamsun.tamu.edu (Ross Mckinney) writes:
- >to my printer, and have been wanting to distribute it here. The problem
- >is that people woth different printers would not be able to use my code.
- >My solution was to write two programs: gif2bits and nx1000. This made it
- >necessary to have an intermediate format. For this I created a real
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- You might also be interested in a package called PBMPLUS which is very
- much what you have done. It has an group of internal formats that it
- uses and lots of converters. (It was written for image conversion, of
- course :)
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- I bet you will find that his bitmap and your bitmap look a lot alike, and
- you could get a lot by using his color code. The only problem I might
- expect is memory limitations in your computer.
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- You can get it from ftp.uu.net.
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