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- From: rlm7638@tamsun.tamu.edu (Jack McKinney)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
- Subject: Re: gif to printer and standard os9 format!!!
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 16:10:54 -0600
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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- In a previous article, mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:
- >
- >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 :)
-
- Firstly, pbmplus was written in C, thus generating huge and
- inefficient executable code.
- Secondly, pbmplus does not do what I am trying to accomplish, namely
- create an _OS9_ standard format for _printing_.
-
- >
- >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.
- >
-
- PBMPlus creates a _text_ file, thus being inefficient, particularly
- for storing an image that is composed of pixels that are simply on or off.
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- | You can tell how far we have to go, when | Jack McKinney |
- | FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers. | jmckinney@tamu.edu |
- | -- Steven Feiner | |
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