Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!atanasoff!hascall
From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: SIXEL to PostScript converter wanted !!
Keywords: SIXEL,PostScript,VAX-VMS
Message-ID: <946@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 89 20:01:57 GMT
References: <175@dx7.UUCP> <3482@uhnix1.uh.edu>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State Univ. Computation Center
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In article <3482@uhnix1.uh.edu> rr@csun1.cs.uh.edu writes:
 
>Another request that I have posted before. Does anybody else have anything that
>does the inverse? I want to convert either a dvi file (the output from TeX,
>LaTeX) to Sixels, or,  a Postscript file to Sixels. Doesn't anybody in the
>whole wide world ever have had a need for this before :-?  

    PostScript to anything is very difficult.  It is a very complex page
    description language.  Also, you would need to have the font description
    information (which, of course will cost an arm and a leg from Adobe, if
    you can get it at all).

    Of course, you could always do a small subset of it...

    John Hascall