Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:01:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HPGL format Message-ID: <199709121801.MAA10801@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199709121755.DAA00551@word.smith.net.au> References: <199709121751.LAA10671@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199709121755.DAA00551@word.smith.net.au>
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> > Hmm, could I cut/paste from it into something like paint-brush, and end > > up with a GIF/TIF from it? > > You could take a screen grab of it, but not, AFAIR, at any other > resolution. ie. the rasteriser generated the image at screen > resolution for display, and printer resolution for printing, but not at > some arbitrary resolution for cut-n-paste. *argh* > > > Short of that, write your own HPGL parser; it's pretty trivial(*). > > > > It'd be easier to print the darn thing and scan it, but we'd rather not > > lose the resolution in the process. > > Understood. How big is the image? Don't know, someone handed it to me and said 'I need a gif image from this'. If it's alot of work we'll simply print it and scan the image in, but I had hoped one of the ports knew how to convert *from* HPGL into something we can handle. Nate
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