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- From: tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Tim Auckland)
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- Subject: Re: Postscript to bitmap conversion?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.214541.4634@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 21:45:41 GMT
- References: <18u5efINNlci@agate.berkeley.edu> <salnick.0k49@dejavu.spk.wa.us>
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- In article <salnick.0k49@dejavu.spk.wa.us>, salnick@dejavu.spk.wa.us (There is no substitute for displacement...) writes:
- |> In article <18u5efINNlci@agate.berkeley.edu> dcook@garnet.berkeley.edu (Dan Cook) writes:
- |> >I'm looking for a way to convert some postscript files
- |> >to X11 bitmap format... Does anyone have any ideas?
- |> >
- |> >-uncle dan
- |>
- |> PbmPlus utilities?
-
- No, PbmPlus deals with rasters and other "simple" graphics models. Admittedly
- they may be in fancy formats but nothing in that package can come near real
- PostScript. There is a note from the author explaining that although there are
- the psto?? tools for unpacking PS image format, they are not really serious.
-
- PostScript is a complete programming language and should not be mistaken for a
- mere "graphics format". It requires a fairly heavy interpreter implementing
- virtual memory and sometimes even file-system operations. GhostScript provides a
- very good PD PostScript interpreter. It does include a program (written in
- postscript, of course) that will run a PostScript file and write the output to
- disk in ppm format. After that yo may use the PbmPlus suite.
-
- Tim.
-