[comp.windows.news] Color Images with image

dhb@maths.qmw.ac.uk (David Burgess) (06/01/90)

I asked a question about using the image operator to produce color images
instead of grey scale.

In the meantime I browsed the Adobe documents server (ps-file-server@adobe.com)
and found a document called Color Extensions (dated 23-jan-1990) describing
some new PostScript operators including  colorimage  and  setcolortransfer
The first is analagous to image but uses RGB or CMYK input, and the latter
is an expansion of settransfer to four color components.

Color PostScript printers are going to become more common, so will these
operators be in NeWS?
David Burgess ===== Astronomy Unit, QMW, University of London +44 71 975 5460

naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) (06/02/90)

In article <7083.9005310829@qmwms.maths.qmw.ac.uk>, dhb@maths.qmw.ac.uk
(David Burgess) writes:
|> I asked a question about using the image operator to produce color images
|> instead of grey scale.
|> 
|> In the meantime I browsed the Adobe documents server
(ps-file-server@adobe.com)
|> and found a document called Color Extensions (dated 23-jan-1990) describing
|> some new PostScript operators including  colorimage  and  setcolortransfer
|> The first is analagous to image but uses RGB or CMYK input, and the latter
|> is an expansion of settransfer to four color components.
|> 
|> Color PostScript printers are going to become more common, so will these
|> operators be in NeWS?
|> David Burgess ===== Astronomy Unit, QMW, University of London +44 71
975 5460

These operators were described in colorops.mss dated 28 April 1988.

These operators are not very useful in the window system context since
they deal in 24 and 32 bits per pixel to define the image.  Thus they
will not be in Version 2 of OpenWindows, but may appear in later releases
as TrueColor framebuffers become more common.

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