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Date: Sun 22-Feb-1990 23:10:33 From: Unknown Subject: Grabbing Rendered PostScript bitmap I'd like to render a postscript image on a NeXT machine in the 300dpi mode, and then grab it before it's printed, so I can convert the bitmap to postscript form and print it on a LaserWriter. You ask, _why_ would I want to do such a thing? Simple - the Laserwriter has this teensy memory, and I want to print stuff that takes more. So I figure that if I image it on a NeXT, and then print it on a LWII, it'll work. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks, --chet-- --chet-- murthy@cs.cornell.edu >From: wjs@fred.cs.washington.edu (William Shipley)
Date: Sun 24-Feb-1990 11:00:26 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Grabbing Rendered PostScript bitmap I've considered writing a more general version of such a beast myself. The way I figured it, one should create a new printer type (in the netinfo printcap) and specify your program as a filter. Your program would simply create an off-screen Bitmap Object of size 8.5 * xres by 11 * yres, lock the focus to this object, and image the postscript page by page. This would be exceedingly easy, made even easier by the on-line source to a program that does something much similar ("Yap!" "Excuse you."). Once you have a bitmap, where you put it would be your business. If someone really got clever, they'd figure out a standard way to specify the kinds of graphic commands dot-matrix printers take, put a bunch of popular printers into a database, and sell a product that allows one to print PostScript to any old cheap printer (for example, a $300 imagewriter at 144dpi). This would be the first time PostScript would be available on dot-matrix printers, to my knowledge. It would also be illegal, I believe, since I recall reading something about Adobe licensing PostScript only for use on the monitor or the NeXT printer. No surprise, really, considering that if someone wrote such a program nobody would ever buy another LaserWriter, they'd just pipe all their output through a NeXT. -william shipley future NeXT software engineer wannabe >From: mdeale@vega.acs.calpoly.edu (Myron Deale)
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