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- From: stanj@ferrari.corp.sgi.com (Stan Jensen)
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- Subject: Re: RGB to ?????
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.224246.11983@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 22:42:46 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.161655.42437@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug19.161655.42437@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- |> After saving screen images using 'snapshot' I would like to print
- |> them out on our color PostScript printer. To do this I need to
- |> translate from the RGB format to PostScript.
- |>
- |> Can anyone point me to a program to do this? I've got the
- |> PBMPLUS package but it doesn't seem to support SGI RGB. If I can't get
- |> directly to color PostScript, possibly a multi-step procedure
- |> could be used involving translation from RGB to [something] and then
- |> using PBMPLUS to get from [something] to color PostScript, where
- |> [something] = a format supported by PBMPLUS (GIF, TIFF, etc.)
- |>
- |> Thanks for any help.
- |> ________________________________________________________________________
- |> Raymond W. Arritt | Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- |> Assistant Professor | University of Kansas
- |> arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | Lawrence, KS 66045
- |> "And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what
- |> the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions."
- |> -- David Jones @ Megatest Corporation
- |>
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- Try "/usr/sbin/tops -RGB" in the eoe2.sw.imagetools subsystem. This creates
- color PostScript from SGI's RGB files.
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