Path: utzoo!hoptoad!well!pokey From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Format of Faces - I have a face to sunrasterfile program. Message-ID: <13069@well.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 17:51:51 GMT References: <711@kl-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: Jef PoskanzerOrganization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 21 In the referenced message, jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) wrote: }I am a little confused over the picdata: and imagedata: lines }as I couldn't see a use for both of them. I just used the }picdata: line to decode the image, but wasn't sure what I was }supposed to do with the imagedata: line. The PicData: line specifies how big the image is; the Image: (not ImageData:) line, how big it is supposed to be. In other words, the pixels in the image are not necessarily square. If you're not handling the Image: line, then most of your images will be TOO FAT. So far I have seen four face-to-whatever programs posted. The two that convert to PostScript handle Image: by letting PostScript do the rescaling. The two that convert to something else do not handle Image:. My own (unreleased) program is the only one I know of that both converts to another raster format and handles Image:. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer pokey@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!pokey "And that's the way it is." -- Walter Cronkite