SEDAYAO@sc.intel.COM (Jeff Sedayao - Intel Santa Clara Postmaster) (05/16/88)
Vax sages,
I am trying to find a program that will run under VMS which will
convert a file containing either REGIS or HP graphics to SIXEL.
Does anyone know of such a program?
Jeff Sedayao
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I am trying to find a program that will run under VMS which will convert a file containing either REGIS or HP graphics to SIXEL. DEC sells a program called RETOS (ReGIS To SIXEL) which performs this conversion for ReGIS. (It was introduced at about the same time as the LJ-250 color printer to provide a way to print ReGIS on that printer. As I recall, it is quite inexpensive.) I've never seen a converter for "HP graphics", a term which actually covers several quite different protocols. Note that if you can find an HP to any-sort-of-bitmap converter, converting the bitmap to SIXEL's should be very easy. The SIXEL protocol is quite trivial; it's essentially just a way to represent a bitmap using "printable" characters. -- Jerry
nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.GOV (Frank J. Nagy, VAX Wizard & Guru) (05/20/88)
> I am trying to find a program that will run under VMS which will > convert a file containing either REGIS or HP graphics to SIXEL. There is a DECUS program called SIXEL which has appeared on several VAX SIG tapes which will convert ReGIS to sixels with the help of a ReGIS graphics terminal - it displays the file on the terminal and then requests and upline dump in sixel format of the screen which it captures to a disk file. This program is also limited to the screen resolution of the terminal. Digital has a layered product called RETOS: ReGIS To Sixels. This product does NOT required a terminal (can be run in a batch job) and is capable of generating sixel files at the resolution of your output device (say 300 dpi for a laser printer). A RETOS license for a MicroVAX-II (QZZE9-UZ) is only $240. ====== We do not have RETOS, but have used the SIXEL program (a locally adapted version) a few times. I expect that future needs will cause us to buy RETOS. = Frank J. Nagy "VAX Guru & Wizard" = Fermilab Research Division EED/Controls = HEPNET: WARNER::NAGY (43198::NAGY) or FNAL::NAGY (43009::NAGY) = BitNet: NAGY@FNAL = USnail: Fermilab POB 500 MS/220 Batavia, IL 60510
jeh@crash.cts.com (Jamie Hanrahan) (05/24/88)
Digital has a Regis-to-sixel converter program, cleverly named RETOS. Price is EXTREMELY reasonable for the DEC software universe, e.g. $126 for a MicroVAX 2000, to a peak of $1,995 for a VAX 8978. We've ordered it and have heard from others that it does a good job. Unlike the hacks that use the sixel-upload capability of VT124, VT240, etc., terminals, RETOS uses the full resolution of the output device -- circles lose their jaggies, etc. (Info from the Winter/Spring 88 DECDirect catalog and from conversations with other users.)
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Digital has a Regis-to-sixel converter program, cleverly named RETOS. Price
is EXTREMELY reasonable for the DEC software universe, e.g. $126 for a
MicroVAX 2000, to a peak of $1,995 for a VAX 8978. We've ordered it and
have heard from others that it does a good job. Unlike the hacks that use
the sixel-upload capability of VT124, VT240, etc., terminals, RETOS uses the
full resolution of the output device -- circles lose their jaggies, etc.
(Info from the Winter/Spring 88 DECDirect catalog and from conversations with
other users.)