Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!svax05.pcr.co.UK!WILLIAMS_B From: WILLIAMS_B@svax05.pcr.co.UK Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Sixel to Postscript Converter Wanted Message-ID: <8806161944.AA14764@mcvax.cwi.nl> Date: 16 Jun 88 11:58:07 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mcvax!ukc.ac.uk!Pfizer@uunet.UU.NET Organization: The Internet Lines: 35 After reading Jerry's article, it occurred to me that Render must use the same format translation program as the LN03R symbiont uses... so I tried Render/source=ansi/dev=ln03r/out=login.ps login.com and lo and behold, an almost perfect PS output file from an ansi file. (Almost, because I had to use the wonderful Meadow's FILE utility to convert the file to NOIMPLIEDCC) So I guess if you wrap the appropriate escape codes around it, and you have the LN03R software, you _can_ translate sixel to postscript... Which brings me to a flame for dec salesman (who I am sure _don't_ read this! Uk salesmen anyway...) I complained to my salesman that the LN03R method of translation on the fly was an extra burden on a slow device. The 'R' is advertised as an 8ppm printer... unfortunately it requires about 2 mins to download the stupid form between each job. Add to that the intermediate translation from ansi/regis/tek to postscript and you have queues of users waiting for their output. "Why not have a standalone translator?" I asked? "dunno" the reply. Now I wonder if Render is licensed to run on a cluster.... Brian.