ajb@RETINA.MITRE.ORG (Alan J. Broder) (02/09/89)
I have an application which requires me to produce a full-page equivalent of the 300-dpi bitmap which would be produced by a PostScript printer. The people at Adobe told me that in fact, the Display PostScript on the NeXT machine does this; the NeXT laser printer is not a PostScript printer, rather it expects a pre-rasterized 300dpi raw bitmap which is produced using Display PostScript on the NeXT CPU (with output to a bitmap file rather than to a screen window). My question is this: Is there any way for me to achieve the same result using NeWS on a Sun ? That is, will NeWS allow me to render my postscript to a buffer or a file (instead of the screen) at the equivalent of 300dpi resolution ? If this is not possible, does anyone know of a postscript printer simulator which will produce such an output ? (There are already products on the market for PC's which will, in effect, convert your "dumb" laser printer into a postscript printer by rasterizing on the P.C.). Please send replies direct to me as I am new on this list. I will summarize if there is any interest. Thanks Alan J Broder ajb@cornea.mitre.org <------------ use this address The MITRE Corporation Image Processing Technology Center
msc@ramoth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow) (02/10/89)
In article <8902081448.AA01383@retina.mitre.org>, ajb@RETINA.MITRE.ORG (Alan J. Broder) writes: > > I have an application which requires me to produce a full-page equivalent > of the 300-dpi bitmap which would be produced by a PostScript printer. > > My question is this: Is there any way for me to achieve the same result using > NeWS on a Sun ? That is, will NeWS allow me to render my postscript to a > buffer or a file (instead of the screen) at the equivalent of 300dpi > resolution ? It occurs to me that using a retained canvas and setting the transformation matrix to an appropriate matrix for 300dpi might work. I haven't tried it but it seems worth a shot. -- -Mark