D From:	SMTP%"denholm@conmat.phys.soton.ac.uk"  2-FEB-1995 09:20:50.27 To:	EVERHART CC:	 Subj:	RE: sixel format   X-Newsgroups: comp.os.vms % From: denholm@conmat.phys.soton.ac.uk  Subject: RE: sixel format ( Message-ID: <PQUWBAYV@math.fu-berlin.de>0 Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)* Nntp-Posting-Host: sotona.phys.soton.ac.uk' Organization: University of Southampton " Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 08:08:00 GMT	 Lines: 32  To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com  X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET   + In Article <9501292343.AA12332@uu3.psi.com> ) Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com> writes: I >Interesting timing.  Two queries about sixels in a short period of time:  > I >A long time back, I wrote - and have distributed to INFO-VAX - a program J >called SIXJET which reads a sixel file and produces the equivalent HP PCLN >bitmap file.  The program is constructed in two independent pieces:  An inputJ >routine that reads sixels and produces an in-memory bitmap; and an outputL >routine that writes HP PCL.  I've written at least one other output routineK >(TeX input to be used with a package called "sprite", which builts a small I >picture out of tiny rules).  A back end to produce a Postscript encoding L >should be quite straightforward - Postscript represents bitmaps in a simpleL >hex format.  The only possibly tricky parts are getting the orientation and >resolution correct.  G I once started work on a PCL to postscript convertor (dept is HP based)   E I wanted to design it in a modular way, so that any back end could be ? added. Maybe it is possible to also change the front end too..?   ? I think its in /local/hp2sixel on sotona.phys.soton.ac.uk - see 
 readme.div  C I think there are other hp2ps convertors out there, mine started as + hp2sixel, but hp2ps was more interesting...    dd --  @ David Denholm         'official' : D.R.Denholm@southampton.ac.ukB Physics dept.          preferred : denholm@conmat.phys.soton.ac.ukN Southampton University       Tel : (01703) 592104 [work] (01489) 576733 [home]1 uk            SO17 1BJ       Fax : (01703) 593910 