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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Himeji Castle Art available
Message-ID: <313@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 90 03:28:24 GMT
References: <1609@ariel.unm.edu>
Reply-To: eps@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1609@ariel.unm.edu> stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone) writes:
>Generating the image was a real challenge:
>Using an apple scanner and appleScan, I scanned it at 300 dpi on the mac.
>I copied the resulting image inch by inch to PixelPaint [much larger than
>an inch taxed the memory of the Mac], and then saved it to a .eps file.
>Using macput, I got it into the cube. Well, nough said, enjoy

That's a LOT of work.  Last September I posted a "tifftoeps"
program (available by anonymous FTP from sutro.sfsu.edu) that
runs on the NeXT and converts grayscale TIFF from AppleScan
directly to usable Encapsulated PostScript.  Our scanner is
connected to a Mac II with no less than 5MB RAM (I know this
sounds weird; we sometimes change which Mac it's physically
connected to), and the several megabytes per image make Ethernet
the only reasonable way to get TIFF files to the NeXT--portable
EPSF files would be twice the size (hence there's a significant
advantage in performing the conversion on the NeXT).  We tried a
number of network programs on the Mac and settled on NCSA Telnet
for its high performance and ease of use--and we couldn't beat
the price (free).

					-=EPS=-