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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Postscript X server
Message-ID: <2925@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 89 23:31:11 GMT
References: <8074@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <8074@boulder.Colorado.EDU> raney@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Scott Raney) writes:
>How does one typically produce printer output from X applications?
>Screen dumps are not of acceptable quality.

A standard X server is unlikely to deliver a higher quality image than
a screendump since the X server uses a screen pixel based imaging model.
We (and probably all other CAD/CAE companies) take the approach of having
our applications generate high quality output when it is needed.  The
applications generate a world coordinate output that is converted to
either the X screen pixel image model or to a resolution appropriate for
printers or plotters.

Alternatively, you could do world coordinate imaging in the server.
NeWS has a built in PostScript imaging model that can be converted to
any screen or printer resolution.  The announced PHIGS and Display
PostScript X extensions should be able to provide the same capabilities.
-- 
Ken Lee
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.
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