Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!salt.acc.com!ucsd!nprdc!malloy
From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript => Raster Image
Message-ID: <8464@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 12 Jul 90 14:08:07 GMT
References: <1990Jul11.142258.10596@eplrx7.uucp> <138787@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <138787@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> falk@peregrine.Eng.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
>In article <1990Jul11.142258.10596@eplrx7.uucp>, cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy) writes:
>>   I need a program that takes Postscript and converts it directly to a
>>   raster image (i.e. TIFF, GIF, etc.).  

>Consequently, you can't "convert" postscript to a rasterfile.  You have
>to feed the postscript file into a postscript interpreter.  The only
>postscript interpreters I know of are:

	< list of interpreters deleted >

LaserGo's PostScript interpreter _GoScript_ for the IBM PC and clones
will generate TIFF files from PostScript files. I _think_ it will also
make PCX files, but I don't have the manuals with me, so I'm not
sure.


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