U. Penski wrote:

Hi,
[sounding a bit "consultish" again, sorry]
Jason shouldn't use Postscript to print documents with major image content,
if this can be avoided :
As you might already know Postscript converts images to a text
representation , like the RichTextFormat (RTF).
This causes these "ugly" multi-megabyte files mentioned by him.

Postscript is not like RTF. RTF is way-ugly! :-)

It is possible to encode images in a binary format in PostScript, so that the resulting file is only slightly larger than the original JPEG image file. I've not done this in Java, but I have done it in C. You might want to take a look at PDFlib (http://www.pdflib.com/). PDF is just a specialized version of Postscript, after all.

Of course, there's still the problem of getting the file to the printer, and I can't help with that.

=S


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