rivers@bnlls1.nsls.bnl.gov (Mark Rivers) (03/01/91)
(This is basically a repost of an article posted a few months ago for those who may not have seen it then.) I have written a PV-WAVE and IDL driver for SIXEL devices. SIXEL stands for "six pixels" and is DEC's protocol for sending bit-mapped images to printers and terminals. It is supported by devices like the LN03 printer, some newer VT terminals and dot matrix printers. For the LN03+ printer the PV-WAVE/IDL Tektronix driver can be used for vector graphics. However, the Tektronix driver does not support grey-scale images, while my SIXEL driver does. The SIXEL driver is a full-blown PV-WAVE/IDL device driver and supports all of the graphics and imaging routines. Note that Precision Visuals has said that they will be distributing the driver I wrote with future releases of PV-WAVE. Anyone who would like to get a copy of the source code and documentation for this driver can send me e-mail at the address below. Mark Rivers (516) 282-7708 or 5626 Building 815 rivers@bnlx26.nsls.bnl.gov (Internet) Brookhaven National Laboratory rivers@bnl (Bitnet) Upton, NY 11973 BNLX26::RIVERS (Physnet)