[fa.laser-lovers] fast screen dumps

laser-lovers@uw-beaver (08/30/85)

From: tektronix!tekcrl!jimb@uw-beaver.arpa

(Reply to Scott Jones)
We have been working on dumping 1024 by 980 pixel images
and found the same problem you described (the downloading
time is the limiting factor).  To speed up printing of
smalltalk images we wrote a program that outputs the screen
primitives rather than the form.  Secondly, if doing a
rotate of a bitmap rotate it on the host machine rather
than doing it with a transformation in Postscript (the
latter takes up to 30 minutes, the former has no negative
impact on LaserWriter time).

Jim Bailey (tektronix!tekcrl!jimb)