garl@nlm-mcs.arpa (Gary Letourneau) (11/09/88)
A simple question for the postscript experts out there. What method(s) does postscript make available to store and display arbitrary line drawings? In particular, I am interested in approaches that do NOT treat line drawings at bitmaps, but instead encapsulate line drawings in another format. Does postscript provide a mechanism for decomposing a LINE DRAWING into its constituent parts? I would appreciate any literature pointers. garl@mcs.nlm.nih.gov
garl@nlm-mcs.arpa (Gary Letourneau) (11/10/88)
In my earlier posting: > A simple question for the postscript experts out there. What > method(s) does postscript make available to store and display > arbitrary line drawings? In particular, I am interested in > approaches that do NOT treat line drawings at bitmaps, but > instead encapsulate line drawings in another format. Does > postscript provide a mechanism for decomposing a LINE DRAWING > into its constituent parts? As a clarification, let me add that the line drawings are BITMAPS. In essence, what I am asking for is a way of efficiently storing bitmaps of line drawings. Unfortunately, a straight bitmap encoding takes too many bytes. garl@mcs.nlm.nih.gov