Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!skep2!wcs
From: wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.[ho95c])
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Bitmap decompression in PostScript?
Message-ID: <432@skep2.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Jan 89 04:28:27 GMT
Reply-To: wcs@skep2.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.[ho95c],2G218,x0705,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs Center 4632, Holmdel, NJ
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Does anyone have a Postscript program that can  be  downloaded to a
Postscript printer to uncompress bitmaps?  I know it's possible (Glenn
Reid periodically alludes to it.)  The objective is to download a
compressed picture and decompress on the printer, trading printer CPU
for transmission time, which can be significant on large pictures.
For some pictures, a simple run-length encoding would work well, but for
complex grayscale you need something more sophisticated to be worth using.

			Thanks;  Bill
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