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From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: PostScript->PBM
Message-ID: <7624@well.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 21:06:33 GMT
References: <257@taux02.UUCP>
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <jef@rtsg.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, yuval@taux02.UUCP (Gideon Yuval) wrote:
}Has anyone hacked Crispin Goswell's  PostScript  (or:  GNU  GhostScript),  to
}make  it  generate  PBM  files  (cf.  Jef  Poskanzer's  PBM package, recently
}posted on comp.sources.misc)?

Not as far as I know.  However, I convert PostScript to PBM all the time.
The way I do it is to run NeWS, display the PostScript with psview, do a
screen dump, convert that to PBM, and then cut/crop it down to size.

If you have any way of displaying PostScript on a screen, you can do
something similar.  If all you have is a Laserwriter... well, it's possible
in theory to upload the rendered bitmap from the Laserwriter...
---
Jef

             Jef Poskanzer   jef@rtsg.ee.lbl.gov   ...well!pokey
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