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- From: zisk@adobe.com (Stephen Zisk)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Printing Images
- Message-ID: <zisk-220193103606@macne035.boston.us.adobe.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:50:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.040931.3054@pdact.pd.necisa.oz.au>
- Sender: usenet@adobe.com (USENET NEWS)
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- In article <1993Jan21.040931.3054@pdact.pd.necisa.oz.au>,
- sfr@pdact.pd.necisa.oz.au (Stephen F. Rothwell) wrote:
-
- > [stuff deleted]
- > First question: Is the CCITTFaxDecode filter know to be very slow,
- > or are we going about this the wrong way?
- My first question: what printer are we dealing with here? I am
- asking because I want to know what processor and whose implementation.
- CCITT group 4 is somewhat slower to decode than group 3, in general.
- This may be offset if you are using a very slow comm channel. You
- did not say what printer port (or at what speed) you are using.
-
- > [more stuff deleted]
- > Second question: Is scaling of large images slow?
- Scaling of large images is typoically much slower than simply copying
- bits. Again, this depends on the processor and implementation. A slow
- clock-speed 68000 with a cartridge implementation will be very slow,
- while a high clock-speed RISC machine with an interleaved ROM will be
- faster. A controller with a floating point processor, which may include
- a faster integer multiply, also could be faster.
-
- > [more stuff deleted]
- > Third question: Does the CCITTFaxDecode filter have this bug?
- I have not heard of this bug in Adobe implementations. That does
- *not* guarantee it is not there, but on the printers I have access
- to, I have sent many group 3 and 4 files, and have also used the
- printer itself to encode files, and then sent them. The only bug
- I have seen is an endianness problem with some group 3 images. This
- was a certain piece of software which chose to order the bits within
- a byte "backwards" relative to the printer. When I spoke with the
- authors, they claimed that since CCITT is made for a serial stream,
- there is nothing in the spec about what order bits should fill a
- byte. I do not know if this is true.
-
- Stephen Zisk (zisk@adobe.com) Disclaimer: These are my personal views
- Adobe Systems Incorporated and do not represent the position of
- Eastern Regional Office Adobe Systems Incorporated.
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