SUMMARY: sun raster -> postscript

From: AVD Boogaart (sgbc220@ux.sghms.lon.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 12 1992 - 05:51:32 CDT


Hi all,

so this is what you get when you are a really inexperienced, just
starting system manager, thrown in without having had any chance
to read books, do a course or whatever, and having research work
to do which is much more urgent and very demanding.
You will get an enormous, flooding reply on every question asked.
You must have liked my questions (I got massive replies to my
screendump questions, too), because the amount of replies really
is enormous. They were all equally helpful too.

Here the SUMMARY to my question whether _somebody_ knew a conversion
from sun raster to postscript format. I didn't know how to organize
the vast pile of replies, so what I've done is: I have ordered all
senders to the answer they gave, itemized by the key word of their
solution. Hope you find this useful.

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RAS2PS
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From: " (Halvard Halvorsen)" <halvard@no.sdata.trd>
From: bogart@bpb.it (Max Lanfranconi - R and D)
From: mike%trdlnk@NET.UU.uunet (Michael Sullivan)
From: markh@analogy.com (Mark Holm)
From: rlg@ida.org (Randy garrett)
From: katkam@com.att.fuwutai
From: risto%kiva@COM.Sun.Central.snowbird (Risto Tolonen)
From: Michael.Meyers@COM.Sun.Corp (Michael Meyers)
From: Ace Stewart <jstewart@edu.syr.mailbox>
From: evan@com.fsg (Evan L. Marcus [Fusion Systems Group, Ltd.])
i guess you want a printout ? - try something like (for monochrome) :
/usr/bin/screendump | /usr/bin/rasfilter8to1 |
/usr/openwin/bin/xview/ras2ps -X0.6 -Y0.6 -l | /usr/ucb/lpr
Man ras2ps wil do the rest.
(Open WIndows 3.0 Sun O.S. 4.1.2)

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EVEN BETTER
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From: GLYNN PETER ROBINSON <GROBINSON@UK.AC.LON.UMDS.PORTIA>
There is a conversion routine with OW3. It's in $OPENWINHOME/bin/ras2ps
and comes complete with man page!! If you don't have this let me know &
I'll send you a version we've written which is (possibly) slightly better
than ras2ps!!

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PSRASTER
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From: checkedg@uk.ac.bham.eee (Dr. Dave Checketts)
psraster; public domain

From: krm@com.Prime.PRI-MU (Martin {martlbub} Kraegeloh)
the script below contains 4 files,
Makefile psraster.c psraster.man psraster.ps
This is public domain software, I send you the stuff because I made
a minor bugfix in psraster.c, look for "mkr" to find the lines.
BUT: our experience is that all postcript printers fail on full screendumps,
except sparcprinters, because conversion is done on the sun not the printer
itself.
Should youy be able to print a full screendump to a postscript printer, please
let me know of the model!
& THESE FILES ARE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST (not to overload this summary)
& FROM A.BOOGAART@UX.SGHMS.LON.AC.UK

From: Craig Warren <C.Warren@deakin.OZ.AU>
& kindly sent the shell archive (shar 3.32) conatining:
# 709 -rw-rw---- Makefile
# 3519 -rw-rw---- psraster.1
# 12851 -rw-rw---- psraster.c
# 986 -rw-rw---- psraster.ps
& THIS FILE IS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST (not to overload this summary)
& FROM A.BOOGAART@UX.SGHMS.LON.AC.UK

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RASH
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From: michael@de.dlr.go.ts (Michael Klein)
From: peters@ra.pad.otca.oz.au (Peter Samuel)
From: jxt@gov.lanl.hayworth (John Turner)
From: bhunter@com.intelect (Bill Hunter [Intelligent Electronics])
If your running OpenWindows 3 have a look at /usr/openwin/bin/rash.
See the manual on rash(1).

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PBMPLUS
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From: fourx.Aus.Sun.COM!kalli!fourx!corn.Japan.Sun.COM!kevins (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
From: matt@com.xerox.wbst845e (Matt Goheen)
From: mike%trdlnk@NET.UU.uunet (Michael Sullivan)
From: geertj@ica.philips.nl (Geert Jan de Groot)
From: macphed@dvinci.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran)
From: rlg@ida.org (Randy garrett)
From: "Mark.McIntosh" <Mark.McIntosh@CA.UVic.sirius>
From: ept@gov.ornl.ctd.eptsun1 (E P Tinnel)
From: pwright@gov.nasa.msfc.spiff (Patrick D. Wright)
From: risto%kiva@COM.Sun.Central.snowbird (Risto Tolonen)
From: russ@com.issi (Russ Walsh)
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@EDU.ucar.atd.stout>
From: leg@gov.inel (Lance Eric Greenwade)
From: rick (Rick Mott) <rick%pgt1@EDU.Princeton>
From: John Hasley <hasley@edu.bgsu.andy>
I recommend the "pbmplus" package for any sort of image format conversion
you may ever want to do. I believe it can be found on export.lcs.mit.edu
in the /contrib directory; a little time with "xarchie" would likely turn
up an FTP site closer to you as well.
Try Pbmplus it's avalable on ftp.uu.net in /usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume26.
It converts between many different types of files. I don't know the author's name but the documentation I have says he can be reached at jef@well.sf.ca.us.
pbmplus routines (latest version 10 Dec, 1991) which will
convert between several graphics formats. According to "archie", you
can ftp this from "src.doc.ic.ac.uk" in /graphics/X11/contrib.
PBM or PBM+ available at ftp.uu.net among other source archives.
The pbmplus package does this. It's in the contrib portion of the X
distribution...
The pbmplus package can also be used: rasttopnm|pnmtops

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XV
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From: drtr@uk.ac.cam.phy.ras (David Robinson)
From: leg@gov.inel (Lance Eric Greenwade)
From: katkam@com.att.fuwutai
xv : PD S/W developed by John Bradley (bradley@cis.upenn.edu ) is
          a GUI based tool.
Particularly I'm impressed with "xv" tool. It does a lot more things than
you asked for. You should be able to find from archie server where it is
available Or let me know if you couldn't get it. I'll send you the source
which I received (version 2.20 ). You will be able to play with your raster
image file on a winddow, resize it, do a color edit and save it to a
postscript file and a lot other formats. (this says katkam@...)
Get the xv package, current version 2.21, but a new version will be out at the end of the month.
It's on src.doc.ic.ac.uk, and can convert to/from many formats, including rasterfile -> postscript.

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NEWSPRINT
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From: Dan Butzer <butzer@com.cranel>
From: peters@ra.pad.otca.oz.au (Peter Samuel)
If you have NeWSprint look in the PreLimn manual - it alos has raster
to PS filters.

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SUN2PS
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From: Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>
Lots of'em; some are public domain, like sun2ps, others are commercial
(e.g., TranScript includes one).

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UTAH RASTER TOOLKIT
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From: Upkar Singh Kohli <upkar@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu>
From: jxt@gov.lanl.hayworth (John Turner)
Another option is the Utah Raster Toolkit, which understands lots of
formats, but last time I looked, it couldn't make *color* PS, whereas
rash can.

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FBM
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From: baum@kirk.es.go.dlr.de (Peter Baumann)
try the fbm (Fuzzy Bitmap Manipulation) package. It can read all kinds of
formats and convert them to postscript. Is also able to convert color to
greyscale, etc.

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PSSUN
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From: bws900@cscgpo.anu.edu.au (Bede W P Seymour)
pssun (transcript), rash (/usr/openwin/bin) or ras2ps (/usr/openwin/bin).
There's a note at the bottom of ras2ps man page saying it can be freely
copied. You might find the source somewhere.

From: eeimkey@eeiua.ericsson.se (Martin Kelly)
Have you got the Transcript package from Adobe ? Use the pssun
command. Here is the man page.
PSSUN(1) USER COMMANDS PSSUN(1)

NAME
     pssun - convert a Sun raster-format file to a POSTSCRIPT
     file.

SYNOPSIS
     pssun [ options ] [ file ]

DESCRIPTION
     pssun reads in a Sun raster-format file and converts it to
     POSTSCRIPT format on the standard output. If no file is
     specified, the standard input is used. The resulting
     POSTSCRIPT file may be spooled for printing on a POSTSCRIPT
     printer or output to a named file.

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IMAGE ALCHEMY
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From: katkam@com.att.fuwutai
Image Alchemy: is a supported S/W by Handmade Software Inc. (hsi@netcom.COM )

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SDSC
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From: Ian Dunkin <imd1707@uk.co.ggr>
Have a look at the Image Conversion tools made available by the San
Diego Supercomputer Centre (SDSC) visualization group. They provide
interconversion between a couple of dozen different image formats (eps,
gif, hdf, icon, iff, mpnt, pbm, pcx, pgm, pic, pict, pix, pnm, ppm, ps,
ras, rgb, rla, rle, rpbm, rpgm, rpnm, rppm, synu, tiff, x, xbm, xwd),
and a lot of other image manipulations too. They're good, and they'll
do what you want.
Get them by anonymous ftp from sdsc.edu (132.249.20.22, the last time I
looked) thusish..
    cd cd pub$:[anonymous.sdscpub.sun4.graphics] (it's a VMS system)
    get imtools_v2_0_tar.Z
There are versions for other architectures (Cray, SGI, &c) in
directories alongside.

From: leg@gov.inel (Lance Eric Greenwade)
From: ppc@gov.inel (Pam Boge)
From: Ian Dunkin <imd1707@uk.co.ggr>
Have a look at the Image Conversion tools made available by the San
Diego Supercomputer Centre (SDSC) visualization group. They provide
interconversion between a couple of dozen different image formats (eps,
gif, hdf, icon, iff, mpnt, pbm, pcx, pgm, pic, pict, pix, pnm, ppm, ps,
ras, rgb, rla, rle, rpbm, rpgm, rpnm, rppm, synu, tiff, x, xbm, xwd),
and a lot of other image manipulations too. They're good, and they'll
do what you want.
Get them by anonymous ftp from sdsc.edu (132.249.20.22, the last time I
looked) thusish..
    cd cd pub$:[anonymous.sdscpub.sun4.graphics] (it's a VMS system)
    get imtools_v2_0_tar.Z
There are versions for other architectures (Cray, SGI, &c) in
directories alongside. (says Ian Dunkin)
Yes there are a couple of utilities to perform this conversion.
One that is available free is SDSC Image Tools. This is available
through anonymous ftp at 132.249.20.22 and if you have any questions
contact them at info@sdsc.edu. Several other tools that may be
helpful are PBMPLUS and Ghostscript. Let me know if you need addresses
or other information on these tools.` (says Pam Boge)

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BUT WHAT YOU _REALLY_ _REALLY_ WANT... (???)
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From: rick (Rick Mott) <rick%pgt1@EDU.Princeton>
Of course (shameless commercial plug), what you REALLY ought to do is to
get a PGT image processing system; we throw in PBMPLUS for free... ;-)

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P.S.
By the way, who is this guy sending his Fortran Addendum message to
this list millions and zillions of times?

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