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From: izen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Steven H. Izen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Bitmap of PostScript code..
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Date: 15 Feb 90 04:33:16 GMT
References: <1990Feb14.041704.14844@athena.mit.edu> <2761@bacchus.dec.com>
Reply-To: steve@izen386.math.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen)
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In article <2761@bacchus.dec.com> kent@wsl.dec.com (Christopher A. Kent) writes:
>How do you get a bitmap of a PostScript file? You can't. If you could,
>you could use the PostScript engine as a font foundry, and no one,
>especially not Adobe, is about to let people do that, since that's where
>they make their money.

Maybe with Adobe's PS interpreter you can't, but Freedom of Press for the
SGI Personal Iris has an output option to obtain bitmaps.


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