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From: rickers@drexel.UUCP (Rick Wargo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.masscomp
Subject: Dumping screen (up to 4 bits of color) to postscript device
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 01:25:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 01:25:07 1987
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Keywords: Hardcopy of color image using grey-scale
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To all interested:

	We have a utility that dumps a color image on a Masscomp
monitor to a file in postscript form.  The file can then be brought
over to a postscript device (such as the Apple Laserwriter) and
executed to produce a 16 level shades of grey image of the first four
bit planes of color (or 1 bit plane for black & white images).  This
was never intended to be used out of house and it is some of the worst
code I have ever seen in my life - a real hack, but I thought it might
be useful to others with a Masscomp and a Laserwriter.  There is no
documentation, except for the source code (which I had said was
terrible :-) but should not be too difficult to understand how to
compile and use.

	If anyone is interested leave me some e-mail and I will mail
you a copy of the source.

						Rickers
						..!drexel!rickers