saint@snowy.rice.EDU (Christopher St. John) (06/12/90)
I am looking for information on PostScript support for color images. I have Adobe's PostScript Language Reference Manual and the Tutorial and Cookbook, the editions from Feb/April 1990, but they only discuss the b&w "image" operator. The "ppm" package includes a "ppmtops" routine that uses an operator called "colorimage", but I have not been able to find any references to it in the Adobe docs. I mean "images" as in "scanned images" as described in the Adobe publications. I need to be able to print color images along with regular ps onto paper or to a slide. We are running Unix on (mostly) suns. 1. Information on a "colorimage" operator that does not require printing color as a set of separations. (I can live with bad color and fuzzy images) 2. Information on the availiblity/cost of printing #1, both on slides and paper, either the cost/availibilty of color printers or from services. 3. And, on an unrelated topic, information on converting X font descriptions in XLDF format to PS font names. (Not converting the font itself, just matching up existing fonts that look similiar). I have a hand coded table lookup program, but it is primitive. I apologize in advance if this topic has been discussed already or answered in some sort of "frequently asked questions" posting. I have been reading the group for about a week and did not see any discussion of it. Needless to say, I am a PostScript neophyte. Please reply to "cstjohn@bcm.tmc.edu" _not_ "saint@rice.edu", or post to the group if a reply is of general interest. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Christopher St. John Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas | | cstjohn@bcm.tmc.edu Spelling flames to /dev/null | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------