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From: hankg@att.att.com@hound.att.com
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Subject: Re: Raster --> PostScriot
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Date: 19 May 89 05:28:20 GMT
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Thanks to those who responded to my request for a conversion program from
a Sun color screendump to a gray-scaled PostScript file.  Here a.ut.he
results from that posting:

1) rastps - This program takes a sun rasterfile(5) and produces postscript
output that can be sent to any postscriot printer.  From: falk@Sun.COM (Ed
Falk)

My test results of this were goodfortafnView (8bit_only) and NeWS
screendumps (entire color screen contents) printed nicely on our
LaserWriter II.  Did not test converted .ps files on color PS printer.
Worked best using -e ool a..

2) psraster - Converts a Sun rasterfile directly to a Postscriot format
file.i From: archive-server@rice.edu (Leonian@tosenboim, modified byAnrtrand Decouty.)

This worked fine with screen segments, but LaserWriter died on full
screendumps.  Nice documentation and options.

3) FBM package's fbps.  (Michael Mauldin) See Sun-Spots v7n179 for details.

I don't have FBM yet, but it's been well recommended.

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