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From: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Bitmap decompression in PostScript?
Message-ID: <23360@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 89 07:30:14 GMT
References: <432@skep2.ATT.COM> <10529@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes)
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In article <10529@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@helios.ee.lbl.gov> writes:
>encoding.  However, for all but the slowest printer links, this is slightly
>slower than sending the raw bitmap.  The decrease in transmission time
>is slightly more than compensated for by the increase in processing time.
>
The thing is, with me, I dont care how long the PRINTER takes, but
i dont like the LINE tied-up, ie: I am willing to have the printer glow
red hot doing computing I just want quicker transmit times.
This is because my gutless pc cannot DO ANYTHING ELSE while doing transmission
(well it can, then it slows transmission to the point of "time-out errors")
 ..Just a viewpoint on the value of marginal compression.
 -ken
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