Re: raster output to Ghostscript

[John Coppens <john jcoppens com>]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:54:46 -0500
"Boncek, John" <jboncek hunter com> 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?

convert will convert any bitmap into a PS or EPS image externally. You can
use GnomePrint to generate PS files from pixmaps quite simply. Pixmaps can
be built from memory using standard library functions of GTK (GDK, more
correctly).

John