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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Bitmap decompression in PostScript?
Message-ID: <906@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 1 Feb 89 15:09:49 GMT
References: <432@skep2.ATT.COM> <10529@well.UUCP>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <10529@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@helios.ee.lbl.gov> writes:

>In the referenced message, wcs@skep2.UUCP (Bill.Stewart) wrote:
>>Does anyone have a Postscript program that can  be  downloaded to a
>>Postscript printer to uncompress bitmaps?

>The pbmtops filter in recent versions of the PBM package does run-length
>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.

What's the PBM package? Is it available for free?

Anyhow, can anybody mail me a working example of PostScript decompression.
I still want to try it for rather simple scanned documents.

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