Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!ncar!gatech!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!postman+uid0 From: jhm@cs.cmu.edu (Jim Morris) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Compression of bitmaps Message-ID:Date: 30 Jun 88 20:58:52 GMT References: <55534@sun.uucp> Distribution: comp Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 5 In-Reply-To: <55534@sun.uucp> Has anyone out there done software to compress bitmaps and decompress them inside the PS engine? I've heard a rumor that someone has. Ideally, we'd like to use G4 FAX format, suitably tweaked to make it 7-bit, 80 column ASCII. What's needed is a PS routine to unpack it. Can such a routine run fast enough to make it worth the trouble?