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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Bitmap of PostScript code..
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Date: 15 Feb 90 06:50:13 GMT
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In article <4917@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, izen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Steven
H. Izen) writes:
> 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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OK, so how does LaserTalk get a bitmapped version of PostScript to
display on a Mac screen? There must be some way of uploading the bitmap
from a printer (implies you must have a PS printer, of course, but you
can't have everything).

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu