bakken@tahoma.ARPA (Dave Bakken) (09/13/87)
Is Adobe modifying the Postscript standard to include color? If so, is it the same as Sun's NeWS colors? Sorry if this question was answered last week - I don't get to monitor this group all the time. Thanks! Dave Bakken Boeing Commercial Airplane Company uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!bakken Disclaimer: These are my own views, not my employers.
zwicky@tut.cis.ohio-state.EDU (Elizabeth Zwicky) (09/25/87)
In article <172@tahoma.ARPA> bakken@tahoma.ARPA (Dave Bakken) writes: >Is Adobe modifying the Postscript standard to include color? >Dave Bakken >uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!bakken The PostScript standard has always included color. The primitives sethsbcolor, currenthsbcolor, setrgbcolor, and currentrgbcolor are original to PostScript, not added by NeWS. They aren't of much use on a LaserWriter, but they're there. The only addition made by NeWS was to make color objects. Elizabeth Zwicky
herbw@midas.TEK.COM (Herb Weiner) (10/05/87)
-------- In article <8710022114.AA18492@brillig.umd.edu> zwicky@tut.cis.ohio-state.EDU (Elizabeth Zwicky) writes: > In article <172@tahoma.ARPA> bakken@tahoma.ARPA (Dave Bakken) writes: > >Is Adobe modifying the Postscript standard to include color? > The PostScript standard has always included color. The primitives > sethsbcolor, currenthsbcolor, setrgbcolor, and currentrgbcolor are > original to PostScript, not added by NeWS. They aren't of much use > on a LaserWriter, but they're there. The only addition made by NeWS > was to make color objects. > Elizabeth Zwicky The above is only *partially* true. sethsbcolor, currenthsbcolor, setrgbcolor, and currentrgbcolor are the color equivalents of setgray and currentgray. What is missing from the PostScript Language Specification are the color equivalents of image, settransfer, currenttransfer, setscreen, and currentscreen. If Adobe has extended the PostScript Language Specification to include new primitives for handling color images, perhaps they could post this information to the net. Herb Weiner (...!tektronix!midas!herbw)