Re: raster output to Ghostscript

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Boncek, John wrote:
> I am working on a large embedded application the current version of which
> generates printed output into a framebuffer-like area of memory as a
> bitmap of 8 colors.  A custom print driver then sends that image to the
> printer as a page.
>
> We are porting this application to a new processor with Linux as the OS
> and planning to use the off-the-shelf HPIJS driver from HP which accepts
> PostScript.  Is there a straightforward way to embed a raster image into
> PostScript/GhostScript?  It is not feasible to convert our complicated
> graphics and font output in detail into GhostScript.
>
> More generally, how does one use PostScript to print a bitmap or other
> raster image?

There is an adobe document/book (the red book?) that describes the postscript 
language and what it can do. Maybe you should use EPS (encapsulated postscript).

> Thanks for any help or any pointer to a documentation page that deals with
> this.

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/graphics/postscript.html
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=encapsulated+postscript&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta=