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From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Generating bitmaps from Ghostscript
Message-ID: <1048@nlbull.bull.nl>
Date: 14 May 91 15:32:01 GMT
References: <89.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com>
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In article <89.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com> ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch) writes:

>It may simply be that Ghostscript takes a long time to write the
>image.  The code for dumping out the bitmap in this case is written
>in PostScript, and is quite slow.

Yep. It took about 7 (!!!) minutes to see the first byte in the file...

But the problem is already solved: yesterday evening I wrote two own
drivers, one test driver for getting the bitmap and one driver for my
non-standard laserprinter. And it works.

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