BIG, POSTSCRIPT, OVER

Re: Albert Einstein Postscript Msg

Why was a Postscript message posted here?  This is ASCII art, not
postscript art.  I appreciate the message, but it is just way too much
bandwidth for one image.  I recommend zipping it and posting it in the
binary pictures newsgroup instead of ASCII art..

Thank you.

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In article <1bc...@jumpstart.com>, jos...@jumpstart.com (Josef Faulkner) writes:
|> Re: Albert Einstein Postscript Msg
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|> Why was a Postscript message posted here?  This is ASCII art, not
|> postscript art.  I appreciate the message, but it is just way too much
|> bandwidth for one image.  I recommend zipping it and posting it in the
|> binary pictures newsgroup instead of ASCII art..

I totally disagree.  This IS ascii art.  The fact that it came in
postscript format is just because today's printers don't always understand
the carriage control of yesterday's line printers.  I think this is
a whole lot more appropriate than the gif to ascii conversions that
abound.  I would love to see more.

Specifically, when I was in college (long, long ago), there was one
of these overprint files floating around that was Spock holding a
model of the Enterprise (that's how long ago it was).  Has anyone
still got that?  And postscript format would be perfect.

In article <1bc...@jumpstart.com>,
Josef Faulkner <jos...@jumpstart.com> wrote:
>Re: Albert Einstein Postscript Msg
>
>Why was a Postscript message posted here?  This is ASCII art, not
>postscript art.  I appreciate the message, but it is just way too much
>bandwidth for one image.  I recommend zipping it and posting it in the
>binary pictures newsgroup instead of ASCII art..

	If you look at it, you'll see that it is actually a picture made
out of ASCII characters. That is why it was posted to this newsgroup.
Althoug maybe compressing it in some way might have been an idea...

	--Simon.

sw...@atl.hp.com (Sandy Morton) writes:

>Specifically, when I was in college (long, long ago), there was one
>of these overprint files floating around that was Spock holding a
>model of the Enterprise (that's how long ago it was).  Has anyone
>still got that?  And postscript format would be perfect.


I have it!  I wrote a program (over a year or two) that can read in
various picture formats (added over time) and output different picture formats.
I went and found the Spock poster on the net, and fixed up a program
that could read in the FORTRAN carriage control format printer file
and then I could output it in whatever form I wanted.  I also have
a program that I collected that converts fortran format to CR w/o LF to
do the over-printing.  Respond to me via e-mail and I'll send you a copy
(Zipped and uuencoded) of the printer file, and the source for converting
FORTRAN to CR,LF printer files.

							- Rob
reply to: rsi...@prism.clemson.edu (this is not the address where we have news)

I could include a postscript version, but my PS knowledge is weak and I only
did a cheap hack to get PS output with my program.  I use a color mask
for each of the 17 colors that were present in the spock poster.  This leads
to a 600k .ps file that ties up printers for about 10 minutes around here.

					- Rob