chrisg@microsoft.UUCP (Chris GUZAK) (02/04/90)
I'd like to start a discussion about what people would like to see added to PostScript. Ideas have been thrown about in past postings (sometimes hotly debated) but I would like more specific details. Recent discussions of compression techniques (and code that I have impelemented myself) point to an obvious extension, readencodedstring. This would be just like readstring (or readhexstring) but would support a standard encoding method, perhaps more than one (simple RLE or LZ). I would like to see Adobe (perhaps someone else?) add this to future versions of postscript, as well as provide a tight, highly optimized version to support past versions where this is not available. Even in environemnts where transimssion time is not an issue encoding is useful (we all don't have infinte amounts of disk). What about things like ROPS and bitblt? Are these things worth adding or would they just spoil the flavor of the language? Chris Guzak disclaimer... sure.