Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!texsun!newstop!sun!wind!naughton From: naughton@wind.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Color in OpenWindows pageview program? Message-ID: <132545@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 6 Mar 90 00:25:00 GMT References: Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: naughton@eng.sun.com (Patrick Naughton) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 39 >> From: montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) >> Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x,comp.lang.postscript >> Subject: Color in OpenWindows pageview program? >> Date: 2 Mar 90 17:25:44 GMT >> Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY >> >> I am using the pageview program that comes with Sun's OpenWindows to >> preview the color PostScript file that appears at the end of this >> message. If I image at 36, 72, or 100 dpi, it is shown in color. If I >> image at 150, 300, or 400 dpi, however, it is shown in black and white. >> Can someone tell me if this is a bug or a feature? Is there a workaround >> other than avoiding the higher resolutions? >> >> Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com) >> It's a feature... Pageview switches to monochrome above 100 dpi since the memory requirements for retaining 8 bit rasters at high resolutions are prohibitive. For instance at 300 dpi an 8.5 by 11 inch page takes 8.4 Meg. If you really want to try it, use the undocumented command line switch: -mcd (max color dpi). pageview -mcd 900 -dpi 900 tiger.ps will work, but it will take over 75 Meg of memory. If you have that much memory... have fun! -Patrick OpenWindows Version 2... flying soon on a SPARCstation near you! "Time to eat all your words, Swallow your pride, Open your eyes..." - Tears for Fears ______________________________________________________________________ Patrick J. Naughton ARPA: naughton@sun.com Window Systems Group UUCP: ...!sun!naughton Sun Microsystems, Inc. AT&T: (415) 336 - 1080