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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:43:51 +1100
From: Graeme Gill <graeme@colorbus.com.au>
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lloyd.kauapundu@materna.de wrote:
> I am new to the field of TIFF and I have a few questions. I am implementing
> a server that has to handle Documents. The server takes in documents send in
> PostScript-format or any other format and converts them to TIFF. My question
> is how to convert the documents in TIFF. 

What you are after is a Postscipt RIP (Raster Image Processor). These
are complicated pieces of software. If you are a very good programmer,
with good graphics knowledge, then it might take about 3-5 Years
to create one that works with most Postscript files out there :-)

If you are after a solution sooner than that, then you will
need to licence a RIP from one of the RIP vendors, the
best known being:

Adobe CPSI     <http://www.adobe.com/>
JAWS           <http://www.jawssystems.com/>
Harlequin      <http://www.globalgraphics.com/software/harlequin_rip/index.html>
Ghostscript    <http://www.artifex.com/>

If you are intending to use the RIP for non-commercial use,
then the freely available version of Ghostscript would
be your best choice: <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/>

I don't know of any Postscript RIP implementations written
in JAVA.

Graeme Gill.

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