On Sat, Jun 22, 2002, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> I've developed a need to determine/detect what type of compression
The first record in a Plucker document contains information about
the compression type (more info about this record is available in
DBFormat.html).
> The same holds true for what type of image value was
> selected when it was created (no images or {1|2|4|8|16} bpp).
A Plucker document doesn't have to use only one setting for the
images, e.g. in the same page one image can be included as a 4bit
grayscale image while another image can be in full color.
> Is there an easy way to do this
$ cat << EOF > type.awk
> /0000/ {
> if (\$5 == 02)
> print "ZLib"
> else if (\$5 == 01)
> print "DOC"
> else
> print "Unknown"
> }
> EOF
$ chmod u+x type.awk
$ pilot-file -r0 foobar.pdb | awk -f type.awk
ZLib
You would probably want a better solution, though ;-)
/Mike
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