Working again with my XFig conversion (which is almost useable now), I find
that the postscript output is ridiculously big when pictures are involved.
A file that XFig exports to a 1/2 MB PS, we export to 57 MB! XFig
compresses pictures, we really should do the same.
The xfig decoding routine start with:
% Polyline
%
% Originally from a GIF File: counters/germans/8-3-8.gif
% Begin Imported PCX File: counters/germans/8-3-8.gif
n gs
2550 11202 tr
2.033898 -2.097902 sc
0 -286 tr
0 0 tr
sa
/showpage {} def
% PCX image follows:
295 286 sc
%***********************************************************************
%* *
%* Object: Image decoding PS-routine Date: 01.02.93 *
%* Author: Evgeni CHERNYAEV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *
%* *
%* Function: Display a run-length encoded color image. *
%* The image is displayed in color on viewers and printers *
%* that support color Postscript, otherwise it is displayed *
%* as grayscale. *
%* *
%***********************************************************************
We should be able to find that or do something better. And this is just
run-length encoding.
-Lars
--
Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause) | Hårdgrim of Numenor
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I | Retainer of Sir Kegg
will defend to the death your right to say it." | of Westfield
--Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | Chaos Berserker of Khorne
