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- From: pruy@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Rainer Pruy)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Break down drawing larger than pagesize ?
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:21:28 GMT
- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
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- In <1992Dec22.025320.5909@leeweyr.sccsi.com> bill@leeweyr.sccsi.com (Bill Lee) writes:
-
- > In article <1992Dec21.171203.29295@cs.brown.edu> jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat) writes:
- > >
- > >>Has anyone ever done a program (be it postscript or a tool creating
- > >>postscript), that can draw on an (infinitely large) virtual page, then
- > >>break it down into an acceptable size (say the printer's default),
- > >
- > >Here's a hack that may be of use to you. I've used it to create
- > >posters 18 feet high! :)
- > >
- > >Right now it's set to print "normal size" -- just one page.
- > >
- > >-Jon
- > >
- > (Another of Jon's Obfuscated PostScript figures deleted) 8-{)
-
-
- > Has anybody been able to answer this question in general?
-
- > I do not believe this can be done in most PostScript interpreters for an
- > ARBITRARY image.
-
- [...observation regarding problems of blue book poster code deleted...]
-
- > Comments???
-
- > Regards,
-
- > Bill Lee
-
- Not for arbitray images, but for most images. It is clearly impossible for
- wierd resolution dependent images. For deterministic device independent images
- 'posterization' is just a matter of (disk) space and (communication) time.
-
- The key idea is to avoid creating a procedure at all.
-
- Yes, using a procedure, as is suggested in the blue book, has space and time
- benefits. In level 2 PS such a procedure could be defined as PaintProc of a
- forms dict and the forms cache will probably speed up processing.
-
- For complex page descriptions, as Bill noted, defining a procedure
- might fail due to implementation restrictions.
-
- However, one does not need to define a procedure. Just repeat the page
- description itself each time prefixed with necessary CTM modification commands
- as suggested in the blue book example.
-
- The only difficulty arises with page desriptions using device or page setup
- commands (A4, letter, pagedim, initgraphics, init... et al.), which would
- interfere with the CTM modifications necessary for producing individual
- poster sheets.
-
- With such PS code there are two possibilities:
- - commenting out the 'bad' commands
- either by special casing several products (needs knowledge of all products
- producing postcript code posters should be made from) or by providing
- 'emulations' for all critical commands (requires kowledge of postscript in
- general and probably some undocumented, product (printer) dependent
- operators in systemdict or serverdict (For many software products red book
- documented operators will suffice, but I don't know what device dependencies
- hide inside the LaserPrep prologue of Adobe.)
-
- - inserting poster CTM modifications AFTER all such 'bad' commands
- This is trivial for DSC compliant code. Insert 'poster code' just at the end
- of each 'page setup' section, just before '%%EndPageSetup', or, if this DSC
- comment is not used, just after the '%%Page:' comment.
-
- Repeating a page description allows for producing a poster form a page
- description, as long as the printer used already was able to print the
- plain page.
-
- Regards,
- Rainer Pruy
-
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