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From: janm@echo.prl.philips.nl (Jan Mulders)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: RLE sampled-image compression
Summary: nice idea, but ...
Message-ID: <2165@prles2.prl.philips.nl>
Date: 20 Sep 90 11:29:35 GMT
References: <7320@milton.u.washington.edu>
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Reply-To: janm@echo.UUCP (Jan Mulders)
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In article <7320@milton.u.washington.edu>, William Lewis writes:

>   It seems that one of the periodic, recurring discussions in this
>newsgroup is the "Gee, I wish I could compress my bitmaps so they
>didn't take so long to transmit, but then it takes too long to 
>decompress them" discussion. Last time this came around I had an idea;
>I still haven't gotten around to actually *trying* it yet, so I thought
>I'd post it to the net and see if anyone else has thought similarly.
>The idea is basically to use RLE compression and use the builtin 
>RLE decompressor in the dashed-line functions. . . .

It is a nice idea, but the Laserwriter limits the length of the setdash
input array to 11. That's far too little for useful images.

				Jan Mulders
Jan Mulders
		E-mail: janm@nlgvax.prl.philips.nl
Philips Research Geldrop, Willem Alexanderlaan 7B, 5664 AN Geldrop,
The Netherlands.