🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <geoffw.716076323@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> geoffw@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Geoffrey Warren Hicks) writes:
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>Posted on behalf of Craig Southeren who does not have access to
>a net account:
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>On the subject of bitmap compression, I've got a small lex
>program which will take an "standard" standalone Postscript
>program and produce another Postcript program which produces
>the same bit image. It also uses run length encoding. Being
>written in "C", it runs fast (no exact timings, but basically
>insignificant for files up several 100k on a Sparc 2). We
>were getting compression ratios of up to 20:1.
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>If anyone is interested, I'll dig it up or rewrite it when
>I get to my new job next week.
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>Be careful with compression systems implemented in Postcript.
>By introducing a compression algorithm, you are swapping
>communications times for decoding time. If you already have
>a real fast communications port into your printer (say, parallel)
>then compression won't get you a lot. If you have a slow
>comms linke (we were using 38400 baud serial) it *IS* worth
>doing for big files.
>
>Of course, you always save in disk storage terms.
>
>My $0.02 worth
>
>   Craig

OH SURE!!! Now tell me.  Were were you a few months ago when I posted
my orginal request?

Of course I'm interested.