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tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 10:08:22 +0000 (UTC), JohnF wrote:
>> But there's no way I could have discovered it
>> on my own beforehand (except sheer dumb luck).
> 
> Indeed, if YaBinOogling is fishing, success lies
> entirely in knowing -- or stumbling upon -- what
> to use as -- and how to cut -- your bait :-) .
> Cheers, -- tlvp

Thanks again, Ken. First cut is pretty much done, i.e.,
pretty much working as intended. An example is at
  http://www.forkosh.com/decorative/decofweek.ps
intended to be input into ImageMagick's
  convert -delay 0 -loop 0 input.ps output.gif
whose corresponding output is at (you guessed it)
  http://www.forkosh.com/decorative/decofweek.gif

The reason I mention all that is because the gif's
5MB, and convert took 6mins to render it from ps
on an i7-920 (though only utilizing one core).
   That's at least partly because I couldn't originally
figure out how to get a transparent background.
So the first %%Page contains one lineto, the second page
contains two, ..., the hundredth/last contains 100 (total 5050).
A smaller and faster version using
  convert -transparent "#FFFFFF" -delay 0 -loop 0 input.ps output.gif
whose input/output is at
  http://www.forkosh.com/decorative/decofweek-v2.ps
  http://www.forkosh.com/decorative/decofweek-v2.gif
works with each %%Page containing only one line (total 100),
and the transparent background lets those lines build up.

But the v2-file's still 350KB and convert takes 31secs,
which is still too slow for online world use. ImageMagick
convert runs gs for its ps-->gif conversion, driven by a
delegates.xml file (in /usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.4.3/config/
on my box) containing the line
  <delegate decode="ps:color" command="---see below---"/>
where command is
  gs -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT
     -sDEVICE=pnmraw
     -and-some-other-stuff
Trying to speed it up, I naively tried psrgb instead of pnmraw,
but that just took longer. Is there any way for gs to
more quickly (i.e., less slowly) run this ps-->gif conversion
with a transparent background?
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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(embarrassingly) simple showpage question JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2012-08-08 04:58 +0000
  Re: (embarrassingly) simple showpage question ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-08 07:59 +0100
    Re: (embarrassingly) simple showpage question JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2012-08-08 08:54 +0000
      Re: (embarrassingly) simple showpage question ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-08 10:17 +0100
        Re: (embarrassingly) simple showpage question JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2012-08-08 10:08 +0000
          Re: (embarrassingly) simple showpage question tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-08-08 22:07 -0400
            Re: (embarrassingly) simple showpage question JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2012-08-09 05:40 +0000
              Re: (embarrassingly) simple showpage question ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-09 08:44 +0100
                Re: (embarrassingly) simple showpage question JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2012-08-09 09:38 +0000
                Re: (embarrassingly) simple showpage question JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2012-08-10 06:24 +0000

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