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From: dkovar@bbn.com (David C. Kovar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript flowers
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Date: 27 May 88 15:02:31 GMT
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In article <1614@osiris.UUCP> phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos) writes:
>
>The rose that everybody's talking about is a bitmap, and I would not
>consider it to be true PostScript because of that.  (I seem to recall that
>its resolution was pretty low to boot.) Unfortunately, I don't have
>anything better for this guy, unless he wants to use the (very simple)
>flower by Glenn Reid which was posted awhile back.  Again unfortunately, I
>don't have a copy of this on hand, but I'm sure somebody else does..
>
>                                                                 Phil Kos
>                                                      Information Systems
>...!uunet!pyrdc!osiris!phil                    The Johns Hopkins Hospital
>                                                            Baltimore, MD

  In my first posting I mentioned that a) it started life as a bitmap
and b) that I'd run it through a package that converted it to
PostScript. Yes, the PostScript it about five lines and the rest is
hex data. But, considering that it was the only sizable rose that I
could find, I let people know it existed. C'est la vie.

  So, while we're on the subject, what is "true PostScript"? A page
description language, yes? I want my page to look like a rose. I can
either figure out what all the curves, line weights, and the like
should be and draw a bunch of lines or I can digitize a picture of a
rose, dump the bitmap into a short PostScript program, and viola!

  If it works, use it.

-David Kovar
 DKovar@BBN.COM