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From: zsd@PIG.DREA.DND.CA (Jim Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: topost
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Date: 27 Aug 90 17:26:02 GMT
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We would like to capture screen images in TeX documents using scrdump
(or icut) followed by tobw followed by topost, followed by \special's
in TeX.  Even using the option of topost which uses just 1 bit, the
images are rather large and take a while to download.

Has anyone modified topost (or similar) so that images are run-length
encoded and then decoded by the printer?  If so, can you tell me about
it?  (We are using an Apple LaserWriter II NTX and a modification to
Beebe's dvialw driver.)

Any info would be appreciated.

			Jim Diamond
			zsd@pig.drea.dnd.ca