I'm guessing you are talking about compressing the bitmap, while Henry is talking about writing a program to generate the bitmap. Such a program is probably only a few hundred bytes in PostScript. As an irrelevant aside, I believe all the compression algorithms used by pdf are also available in PostScript. --ms On 03-Nov-13 12:13, Joerg Arndt wrote:
News: nowadays pdf compresses way better than dvi or ps (at least with those curves!).
Actual test:
2.8M -rw-r--r-- 1 jj users 2.8M 2013-11-03 18:08 test.dvi 40K -rw-r--r-- 1 jj users 39K 2013-11-03 18:08 test.pdf 4.1M -rw-r--r-- 1 jj users 4.1M 2013-11-03 18:08 test.ps
Let's compress (gzip -9):
96K -rw-r--r-- 1 jj users 95K 2013-11-03 18:08 test.dvi.gz 36K -rw-r--r-- 1 jj users 36K 2013-11-03 18:08 test.pdf.gz 316K -rw-r--r-- 1 jj users 315K 2013-11-03 18:08 test.ps.gz
Still sure you want ps?
Best, jj
P.S.: If anybody does know how to make xdvi render the colors in the (embedded postscript from the) 'picture' environment, I'd be eternally grateful...
* Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> [Nov 03. 2013 18:01]:
Duh! Space-filling curves are hard to compress using typical compression algorithms.
But they're often quite easy to generate using the Postscript language.
I wonder if this book has a Postscript form?
At 06:19 AM 11/3/2013, Joerg Arndt wrote:
A pointer to a neat picture book featuring very many "space filling" curves:
Warning: it is a hefty 235 Megabytes!
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