Thanks everyone for any advice you can offer in this area...
Of the various EPS output types supported by Image Magick it appears we can generate compressed output in some cases, but so far there doesn't seem to be a way to produce both compressed and ASCII85 encoded images within the EPS. Is this possible? Yes, this sounds a bit strange since ASCII85 is going to stretch the compressed binary data back out a bit as the more space-efficient compressed bytes are replaced with less efficient ASCII characters, but this is a situation where the original images are very, very compressible and 7-bit backward compatibility is required. By mocking up the EPS it appears that the end result of LZW (or other) compression followed by ASCII85 encoding would be both significant space savings and no binary data. Ultimately, the goal is to assemble the compressed and ASCII85 encoded EPS into an EPSI file. Image Magick does support EPSI, but the same limitation of compressing and encoding the EPS content appears there also so it seemed that the simplest step would be to use the more feature-rich EPS converters and write some outboard code to post-process the original image and the generated EPS into a EPSI file. Have I missed a command-line option that can miraculously daisy chain the LZW encoder with the ASCII85 encoder? _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
