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Mac => Printronix/Bitmap Conversion

Posted: February 21st, 1985, 11:08 pm
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Subject: Mac => Printronix/Bitmap Conversion
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 03:09:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 03:09:37 1985
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From: Michael Ardai

Following the dotted line below is a version of Ed Patterman's
MACIMP program modified for Printronix output. Internally, it
generates a bitmap (a packed array of booleans), so it is easy
to add output routines for any bitmap device. I did not do
any conversions for aspect ratio, so the output is slightly
misproportioned.

The code, as written, is restricted to Decsystem-20's, though
it shouldn't be too difficult to convert it to run on other
machines.

Michael L. Ardai
Columbia University
Center for Computing Activies
User Services

[An FTPable executable is in CU20B::PS:MACPTX.EXE
and the Pascal source in CU20B::PS:MACPTX.PAS]

[ At SUMEX look in MACPTX.PAS -jma ]