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From: garl@nlm-mcs.arpa (Gary Letourneau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: postscript display of graphic images
Message-ID: <8361@nlm-mcs.arpa>
Date: 3 Nov 88 14:29:36 GMT
Organization: NLM/LHNCBC, Bethesda, Md.
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   I am unfamiliar with the details of postscript, and I have a
   simple question for the postscript experts out there. How does
   display postscript handle digitalized images? Does the system
   give a bitmap to the postscript "engine" to display or does the 
   system use another format? In particular, what are the typical 
   disk storage requirements of arbitrary digitized images? 
   Furthermore, what types (if any) of compaction mechanisms are used?
     I bring this question to light in view of the use of postscript
   on the NeXT machine. How much disk storage space is needed to
   store NeXT graphic images?

						garl@mcs.nlm.nih.gov