ImagerPDDoc.tioga
Last edited by Michael Plass, February 25, 1987 3:32:56 pm PST
Stone, December 16, 1986 3:41:28 pm PST
Rick Beach, March 12, 1987 8:25:45 pm PST
CEDAR IMAGER PD FILE PACKAGE
CEDAR 7.0 — FOR INTERNAL XEROX USE ONLY
Imager PD File Package
Michael Plass
© Copyright 1985, 1987 Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved.
Abstract: Client package for writing PD files (printer-dependent page image files) with or without using the Cedar Imager package.
Keywords: device dependence, device independence, fonts, graphics, Imager, images, Interpress, PD format, printing, sampled images, scanned images, thermal transfer printer, Versatec color plotter
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   Palo Alto Research Center
   3333 Coyote Hill Road
   Palo Alto, California 94304

For Internal Xerox Use Only
This package is to be used by an Interpress implementation to convert device-independent Interpress files to device-dependent PD files for actual printing. Except in unusual circumstances, clients should not write PD files, but should write Interpress files instead, preferably through the Imager package.
A PD file is a file in Printer Dependent format. See [Indigo]<PD>Docs>*.press for information on the format of PD files and how to print them on Alto/Slot machines. However, you should actually not need to know anything about PD files, except perhaps that they are a way for an Interpress implementation to get the bits to a printer. Also, if you are interested in making VLSI plots, you need to make PD files directly from ChipNDale, since we have not yet implemented a way to express overlapping transparent colors in a device-independent way.
For printing PD files on machines other than an Alto, consult the documentation found on the file [Indigo]<Peach>Documentation>PeachDoc.tioga .
If you run ImagerPDPackage, it will complain that there is an unbound import for FontTune. It is safe to ignore this unless you are interested in using dynamically tuned fonts (an expensive operation). Use [Cedar]<CedarChest6.1>FontTune>ImagerFontTune.cm to load the font tuning packages.