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Re: How to integrate a graphic (jpg) in a postscript file

From Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: How to integrate a graphic (jpg) in a postscript file
Date 2012-07-01 18:46 -0400
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Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

> I want to include an image (jpeg) into my postscript file. Until know
> I only found a kind of hex-dump into the postscript file. Is there a
> (preferable) simple method to include a (changing) graphic into a
> postscript file?

I don't know if there's some open-source JPEG decoder implemented in
PostScript itself. Usually I just use the free netpbm package: jpegtopnm
to rasterize it, then pnmtops to produce EPS which is easily included as
part of other PS. The resulting EPS can be rather large though.

Mark

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How to integrate a graphic (jpg) in a postscript file Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-07-02 00:32 +0200
  Re: How to integrate a graphic (jpg) in a postscript file Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2012-07-01 18:46 -0400
    Re: How to integrate a graphic (jpg) in a postscript file ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-07-02 08:00 +0100
  Re: How to integrate a graphic (jpg) in a postscript file Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-07-02 19:11 +0200
  Re: How to integrate a graphic (jpg) in a postscript file Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-07-12 18:18 -0700

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