Folks -
Now that C-band Difax is dead, we actually have to start using our Unisys
contract. We have a Unix box and a good-quality laserprinter, and would like
to convert the maps from pcx to postscript and print them out. So far, we
haven't found a graphics conversion package that works:
xv produces 72x72 resolution images which are of poor quality. Surface maps, for example, are unreadable. convert (ImageMagick) produces high-resolution, top-quality graphics.
The postscript files are actually smaller than the ones produced by xv. But
the files take 10-20 minutes each to print, while the xv files take only about
a minute. At that speed, we can't keep up with the maps.
the ppm conversion routines produce huge (several tens of megabytes) postscript
files. I haven't even tried printing one.
Am I doing something wrong, or missing the magic option?
Thanks in advance.
- John
