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Re: jpeg2ps installed in outland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken T Takusagawa)
Sat Sep 16 19:10:18 2006
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:10:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: software-announce@MIT.EDU, bug-outland@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200609162156.k8GLuDoc023307@multics.mit.edu>
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, John Hawkinson wrote:
> PostScript Level 3 suppors the FlateDecode filter, for decoding
> gzip compression. If anyone knows of a utility to compress
> postscript files with gzip and prepend the right decoding magic,
> it might be nice to install that, too.
Modern versions of Netpbm (10.27 and beyond) have "pnmtops
-flate" which does that. However, neither the version
installed on Linux Athena (10.25-2.EL4.3) nor the version in
the graphics locker for Sparc Solaris are new enough.
--ken
