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From: henry@angel.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton -- Software Products)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: sun screendumps?
Summary: String Length Limits Exceeded
Message-ID: <130322@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 90 18:45:41 GMT
References: <1990Jan16.133504.11654@cec1.wustl.edu>
Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM
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In article <1990Jan16.133504.11654@cec1.wustl.edu>, br@wucs1.wustl.edu (Bill Ross) writes:
    *  I am attempting to dump sun monochrome screens to my apple
    *  laserwriter.  I have a postscript program that works fine for 
    *  smaller raster files but goofs up for big ones.   It prints
    *  the top half of the desired image twice and omits the
    *  bottom of the image entirely.  Here is how I am doing it:

    *  %!
    *  18 12 translate
    *  576 450 scale
    *  1152 900 1
    *  [ 1152 0 0 -900 0 900 ]
    *  { <
    *  000000000000000000000000000000000003777777777777774003777777777777
		    :
		    : 259200 characters of hex data
		    :
    *  dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
    *  > }
    *  image
    *  showpage

The maximum length of a string introduced by the < ... > notation
is 65535 characters.  See Red Book, page 260.  See Blue Book, page
114, for a method of doing the job correctly.

	.......... Henry
+-------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+
| Henry McGilton    | I'll bet those people who |                           |
| Sun Microsystems  | put control-D characters  | arpa: hmcgilton@sun.com   |
| 2550 Garcia       | in PostScript files also  | uucp: ...!sun!angel!henry |