Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies
From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Bitmap of PostScript code..
Message-ID: <99500010@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 90 01:38:53 GMT
References: <41704@<1990Feb14>
Lines: 10
Nf-ID: #R:<1990Feb14:41704:p.cs.uiuc.edu:99500010:000:527
Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Feb 20 00:05:00 1990


> I'm sure that this has been posted before (and probably again), but
> now I need the answer.  How can you get a bitmap of a PostScript file?
> Is it possible to get a filter that can dump the print out to a file
> in a bitmap format?  Please answer by mail, since most netters have
> possibly seen this already...

If you have access to a NeXT workstation, then there is a public-domain
postscript previewer that sort of does what you want, but I'm not sure
how you would save it.  You could probably hack on the source code.