#: 20138 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    17-Jul-94  22:10:38
Sb: #20137-#mm2hp
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467 (X)

Hi Larry. Glad someone is playing with the mm2hp program. I am still interested
in it...just don't have the time .

You are completely correct that the program is trying to send more dots than
the printer can handle. However, I don't think that the answer is to convert 8
bits to 7, etc. Remember, each byte of data is just a bit stream...and the bits
represent pixels. On a 256 color screen each byte represents one pixel; on a 16
color 4 bits are 1 pixel. So what really needs to be done is to take each pixel
(4 or 8 bits) and convert that to a grey scale (or even a color value if you
are using a color ink jet printer). It sort of works by just dumping the raster
image...but it is not the _correct_ way to do it. I really just wrote the
program to see how easy it would be to send raster data to the printer.

I really hope you persist and get some good screen dumps working!

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