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From: mfox@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Martin Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Woody vs. PostScript again (was: Re: How to super-impose images ?)
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Date: 26 Jul 90 20:41:16 GMT
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> MOre to the point, I think that the contents of the imaging area
> should be generally available to be operated on.  There's no reason I can see
> why things like finding the current bounding box or cutting and pasting the
> image area shouldn't just work...

Assuming that there IS an imaging area. Let's see; on a 1200-dpi typesetter,
for a letter size page, that would only be, what, about 176K per square inch,
which would work out to, what, about 16 Megabytes? Of course, you'd want to
quadruple that for 2400-dpi. And then there's always larger page sizes...

Maybe there *is* a reason why Postscript hides its imaging area?

Martin Fox