tachyon@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Tane' Tachyon) (10/20/90)
I'm posting this for a friend; please reply to him at midnight@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us *************************************** Help me, please! I would like to create a file containing RGB triples (0 to 255), probably 1000 by 1000 or bigger, and be able to take this to a service bureau of some sort that can produce a color separation (for standard, four color printing) directly. The idea here is both that I can avoid the image and color distortions my screen and a separation from a print would introduce and that I can get much higher res than my screen can display. Everyone who can produce separations from disk files wants Postscript. I can buy a $200 utility that can convert various formats to Postscript: Is there a PD (MS-DOS, please!) utility that can do the same? Even better, is there one with source, so that I could at least conceivably muck with it to take a nice simple headerless file that's just basically a huge array of tuples? Failing the latter, could anyone mail me a spec for a 24 bit format like TIFF or Targa? (I have .PCX specs and code, but I'd rather use 16M colors than 256!) Thanks / midnight@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us