hayes@stsci.EDU (Jeff Hayes) (09/06/89)
Does anyone out on the net know of a PostScript to Sun rasterfile converter? I would like to trnslate a PostScript file into the Sun rasterfile format. Any pointers will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance Jeffrey Hayes ======================================================================= Jeffrey J.E. Hayes | AT&T: (301) 338-4936 3700 San Martin Drive | Internet: hayes@stsci.edu Baltimore MD 21218 | SPAN: SCIVAX::HAYES ======================================================================= Usual disclaimers apply. =======================================================================
paul@ppgbms (Paul Evan Matz) (09/09/89)
In article <735@ghost.stsci.edu> hayes@stsci.EDU (Jeff Hayes) writes: > >Does anyone out on the net know of a PostScript to Sun rasterfile >converter? NeWS provides all the tools to do just what you want. I'm sure someone out there may have a simple script that creates a canvas, renders an image based on an input postscript file, and writes the image to a raster format file. The NeWS/postscript extension writecanvas instruction does the translation from canvas to raster file operation in a single line of code (with the slight side effect that the NeWS server is locked while the operation executes). The real trick is creating a canvas of the appropriate pixel density/resolution. Depends on what you want to do with the raster file. If you want to print it, then you might want to match the dot density of your output device. This is what hung us up for the longest time. Regards, Paul Matz PPG Biomedical Systems One Campus Drive Pleasantville, NY. 10570 914-741-4685 path ppgbms!moe!paul@philabs.philips.com