#Pagestream 2.1 question
26-Jul-91 04:22:28
Sb: #30032-#Pagestream 2.1 question
Fm: Mike Todd 70117,634
To: Jonathan Hirschman 70274,2526
"it describes every pixel that makes one [bit-image] up"
When you say "describe", PostScript doesn't describe each pixel as it does
each letter/word in text. Instead, it takes the bitmap in binary form (just
as it might be in IFF or internally represented) and converts each byte to
hex … it just doubles the number of bytes used. Describing text, one
character at a time, can sometimes mean as many as 40 times the number of
characters.
Mike (Whapping from the UK)