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From: garl@nlm-mcs.arpa (Gary Letourneau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Line drawings in postscript
Message-ID: <8386@nlm-mcs.arpa>
Date: 10 Nov 88 13:27:10 GMT
Organization: NLM/LHNCBC, Bethesda, Md.
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In my earlier posting:


   
  > A simple question for the postscript experts out there. What 
  > method(s) does postscript make available to store and display 
  > arbitrary line drawings? In particular, I am interested in 
  > approaches that do NOT treat line drawings at bitmaps, but 
  > instead encapsulate line drawings in another format. Does 
  > postscript provide a mechanism for decomposing a LINE DRAWING 
  > into its constituent parts?

As a clarification, let me add that the line drawings are BITMAPS.
In essence, what I am asking for is a way of efficiently storing
bitmaps of line drawings. Unfortunately, a straight bitmap
encoding takes too many bytes.

					garl@mcs.nlm.nih.gov