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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: tiff ---> postscript
Summary: how
Message-ID: <17465@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 19 Dec 89 22:08:38 GMT
References: <4417@ur-cc.UUCP> <102880002@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> <869@wet.UUCP>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <869@wet.UUCP>, epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes:
> [ sorry for the late response, but I just subscribed to this
>   newsgroup]
> 
> In <4417@ur-cc.UUCP> mitd_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
> 	(Mitch Diamond) writes:
> >    I am looking for a program which will convert Tif files to postscript.
> >if anyone knows where I can get one (for unix) can you let me know.
> 
> In article <102880002@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> patti@hpcvlx.cv.hp.como
> 	(Patti Richey - CWO (X3939)) writes:
> >Inset Systems Inc. makes a software package called HiJaak ...
> >It can convert scanner-type tif to encapsulated postscript and sells for
> >about $100.
> 
> HiJaak sounds like highway robbery!  A few months ago I posted a
> UNIX program to comp.sys.next that converts TIFF (we use an Apple
> Scanner to produce grayscale TIFF) to EPS.  You can FTP it from
> sutro.sfsu.edu.  It shouldn't be too hard to modify if you have
> special needs.  I made some "simplifying assumptions"--i.e. that
> we're in 680x0 land, but even that's easy to deal with.
> 
> 					-=EPS=-

I don't have access to FTP.  Is there someother way, say a local BBS
that I could dial into to get this code?.
Cheers, Woody