add@sciences.sdsu.edu (James D. Murray) (11/16/90)
There is a lot of PC FAX software out there that can convert an ASCII file to a Raw or G3 bit map ready for facsimile transmission. What is technique/algorithm for this conversion? Just how do these (and other) programs convert ASCII-oriented data to bit-oriented data?
jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) (11/17/90)
In article <1990Nov16.155051.1994@ucselx.sdsu.edu> add@sciences.sdsu.edu (James D. Murray) writes: > There is a lot of PC FAX software out there that can convert >an ASCII file to a Raw or G3 bit map ready for facsimile transmission. >What is technique/algorithm for this conversion? Just how do these >(and other) programs convert ASCII-oriented data to bit-oriented >data? For each character to be printed, a bitmap representation of that character is retreived from a font cashe and is blitted onto a huge framebuffer bitmap. After the page has been completed, a G3 compressed image is created from the framebuffer. --jtc -- J.T. Conklin UniFax Communications Inc. ...!{uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc!jtc, jtc@wimsey.bc.ca