Re: Peace Everybody (Postscript???)

[Colin Marquardt <colin marquardt gmx de>]

* Chayim I Kirshen <chayim.i.kirshen@home.com> writes:

[writing postscript]
> my window on paper.  Other then the menubar, the windows contents will be a
> series of boxes, a jpeg/gif, and some text.  Ideas?

If you are going to follow Michaelīs suggestion about the screen-dump
(which seems like the easiest solution), you should take a look at
jpeg2ps (go to www.dante.de, click on "Suchen im CTAN" and enter
`jpeg2ps' into the form). It just puts a header before the JPEG file,
making the resulting EPS file size just marginally bigger (you need a
Level-2 RIP). This is in contrast to many programs that can convert
raster images to PostScript--these usually just pack the uncompressed
bitmap into the preview section of the EPS. 

JPEG is not well suited for other things than photos and such, however.

There is also a tiff2ps tool which also seems to preserve compression
(but read the BUGS section in its man page).

Generating PS from scratch is not going to be easy, Iīd say. If you
still want to do it, you could take a look at ps-print.el at your
friendly emacs dealer (itīs in e-lisp, of course).

There is also gprint (or is it gnome-print?) which might be interesting
as well.

Cheers,
  Colin

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Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>