jct@geology.wisc.edu (John C. Terranova) (08/15/89)
[We've been having problems with posting for a while. If this makes it out I promise to go to a seminary and become a priest and remain celibate and ... and, ... oh, never mind!] Greetings. I have a program that creates a beautiful 8-bit color image in an off screen pix map and copybits it to the screen. It works wonderfully. However, wonderful is never enough. Now I'm told to >PRINT< out my masterpiece on the LaserWriter in gray scale. I have very little (read: NIL) time to do it but yet must. Does anybody know how to print in gray scale on the LaserWriter? Right now I just CopyBits my pix map to the printer and get straight black and white. No good! I play with the color map so I can also get gray scale on the screen, but how do I get it to the printer?!? Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'll be forever indebted to anyone who can help me pull this off. Thanks much. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | John Terranova <-- me disclaimer --> What the hell do I know? | | jct@ice.geology.wisc.edu <-- address I come from Waunakee! | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ song lyric: We'll drive into the sun and maybe never comin' back. We're goin' cruisin'. Do you want to come? Cruisin'. Do you want to come along with me? -- Gerard, Cruisin'
dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) (08/15/89)
jct@paz.UUCP (John C. Terranova) writes: >I have very little (read: NIL) time to do it but yet must. Does anybody >know how to print in gray scale on the LaserWriter? Right now I just >CopyBits my pix map to the printer and get straight black and white. >No good! I play with the color map so I can also get gray scale on the >screen, but how do I get it to the printer?!? If you mean an Apple LaserWriter then all I can think of is the following solutions: There maybe others, but I can't think of them. To get gray scale I think you'll have to go to generating the postscript code yourself. That mean's you'll have to learn postscript and translate your pixmap to postscript along with the gray-scale directions in the postscript program. Yucky I know, but I can't think of any other way. You might try exporting your graphics to an existing program that does gray scale. >Thanks much. sorry, but this isn't much help, but I hope you find some direction from it. -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|///////////////////////////////////////// David M. O'Rourke____________________|_____________dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu | God doesn't know, he would have never designed it like that in the first | |_ place. ____________________________________________________________________|
stores@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) (08/15/89)
>jct@paz.UUCP (John C. Terranova) writes: >>I have very little (read: NIL) time to do it but yet must. Does anybody >>know how to print in gray scale on the LaserWriter? Right now I just >>CopyBits my pix map to the printer and get straight black and white. >>No good! I play with the color map so I can also get gray scale on the >>screen, but how do I get it to the printer?!? The laserwriter driver 6.0 supports color/grayscale i think. I have the driver but no laserwriter so i can't test it. -- ___________________________________________________________ Matthew Mora SRI International stores@unix.sri.com ___________________________________________________________
parent@apple.com (Sean Parent) (08/16/89)
Just use the 6.0 LaserWriter driver released at the Developers Conference. I believe you can get it from a dealer by asking for the Apple Color Disk. This driver opens a color port and will halftone pixmaps. Sean Parent