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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Color Postscript: Translation To Patterns On Monochrome?
Message-ID: <4296@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 90 00:35:48 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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It occurs to me that if might be very useful if you could send the
appropriate color commands to a monochrome PostScript device, and
have them translated into patterns (rather like most graphics
applications do when you want that 16 color bar graphic printed
on your dot matrix).  I would think it would be a relatively minor
job to intercept the calls to generate various colors, and generate
various combinations of cross-hatching, different densities of
gray, etc.  Or are the functions responsible for color so deeply
buried that it isn't possible to redefine those operators?
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
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