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From: consult@osiris.UUCP (Unix Consultation Mailbox )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: what about color laser printers?
Keywords: LaserWriter, PostScript
Message-ID: <2746@osiris.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 20:20:33 GMT
References: <1667@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <113@adobe.COM> <627@rocksanne.UUCP>
Reply-To: consult@osiris.UUCP (Unix Consultation Mailbox (Phil))
Organization: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Information Systems
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In article <627@rocksanne.UUCP> rainero@rocksanne.UUCP (Emil Rainero) writes:
>(Emil's Psychic Forecast for 1989)
>It is interesting to note that even with 24 or 32 bit color images, there is
>no built-in support for compression. (please, no flames about writing it in
>PostScript). With the proliferation of compression/decompression chips,
>I would expect to see further extensions from Adobe.

It seems to me that it would be pretty hard and possibly unrewarding to
design a compression/decompression scheme which would turn ASCII text
into ASCII text (remember that one of the fundamental ideas behind
PostScript is that PS programs are strictly ASCII, thus enhancing
portability) without causing any random breakage in the way the PS
interpreter reads the image.  Perhaps something like "compress the image
then uuencode" would work, but I wouldn't bet on it myself, I'm no Glenn
Reid (and neither is Brian :-).  The final word, anybody?

Phil Kos        uunet!pyrdc!osiris!phil       The Johns Hopkins Hospital