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| From | Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.postscript |
| Subject | Re: Filtering problem in GhostScript? |
| Date | 2013-02-09 16:22 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <ano427Foa1dU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <ano2b2Fntj2U1@mid.individual.net> |
On 2/9/2013 3:53 PM, Don Lancaster wrote:
>
> I have long used this super elegant array to string converter in
> PostScript...
>
> /makestring {dup length string dup % new string of right size
> /NullEncode filter % make a file out of string
> 3 -1 roll
> {1 index exch write} forall
> pop
> } def
>
> Yet it seems to fail in GhostScript, writing all nulls instead.
>
> Does anyone see the problem?
>
>
Yet this slow sledgehammer replacement seems to work just fine...
/makestring1 { /inarray1 exch store
/outstring1 inarray1 length string store
0 1 inarray1 length 1 sub {/posn exch store
inarray1 posn get
outstring1 exch posn exch put } for
outstring1 dup length string cvs
} store
--
Many thanks,
Don Lancaster voice phone: (928)428-4073
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