Re: Peace Everybody (Postscript???)

[chayim <chayim i kirshen home com>]

I'll tell everyone the truth.  This feature will be implemented eventually, the
question is only how.  I'm still in the planning stages, and not quite
progressing past that yet.  i think I'm gonna try generating a screen capture at
a specific rect.

Chayim

Colin Marquardt wrote:

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
>
> --
> Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>