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From: LEICHTER@Venus.YCC.Yale.EDU ("Jerry Leichter ", LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: looking for graphics conversion program
Message-ID: <8805240143.AA29258@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 18 May 88 18:56:00 GMT
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	I am trying to find a program that will run under VMS which will
	convert a file containing either REGIS or HP graphics to SIXEL.

DEC sells a program called RETOS (ReGIS To SIXEL) which performs this
conversion for ReGIS.  (It was introduced at about the same time as the
LJ-250 color printer to provide a way to print ReGIS on that printer.  As
I recall, it is quite inexpensive.)

I've never seen a converter for "HP graphics", a term which actually covers
several quite different protocols.

Note that if you can find an HP to any-sort-of-bitmap converter, converting
the bitmap to SIXEL's should be very easy.   The SIXEL protocol is quite
trivial; it's essentially just a way to represent a bitmap using "printable"
characters.
							-- Jerry