flynn@eecae.UUCP (Pat Flynn) (09/29/88)
There has been some recent traffic here about compressing bitmap images in Postscript to mimimize the transmission time over the serial line. Does anyone have any good ideas on compressing images that are *non-binary* (more than two gray levels)? We print out reams of 8-bit gray-scale images here, and one 512x512 image will occupy the printer for roughly 10 minutes at 9600 baud (we use the `image' operator, hex codes for the intensity values, 2 bytes/pixel, so at 1000 characters/second, we're talking 500+ seconds not counting overhead). Has anyone written such a beastie? Maybe something that unpacks a binary file of gray levels that has been compress(1)'ed? Thx! __ Pat Flynn, Computer Science, Moo U. (Michigan State University) flynn@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu FLYNN@MSUEGR.BITNET flynn@{eecae,msudoc,frith}.UUCP New Punk Band: "George Bush and the Thousand Points of Light."