Talk:SCODL - Revision history

Dan Tobias at 15:13, 7 September 2020

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Effect2 at 08:21, 7 September 2020

2020-09-07T08:21:12Z

Dan Tobias at 23:25, 5 September 2020

2020-09-05T23:25:32Z

Jsummers: Created page with "Maybe Page description languages would be a better primary category. TrID calls the .SCD format produced by Image Alchemy "Agfa/Matrix SCODL bitmap". But I suspect it's a..."

2020-09-05T20:33:11Z

Created page with "Maybe Page description languages would be a better primary category. TrID calls the .SCD format produced by Image Alchemy "Agfa/Matrix SCODL bitmap". But I suspect it's a..."

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Maybe [[Page description languages]] would be a better primary category.

TrID calls the .SCD format produced by Image Alchemy "Agfa/Matrix SCODL bitmap". But I suspect it's actually a bitmap wrapped in a vector format. That would explain why IA can write SCD, but not read it. -[[User:Jsummers|Jsummers]] ([[User talk:Jsummers|talk]]) 20:33, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

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	:: [https://archive.org/details/SCODLProgrammersGuide/page/n133/mode/2up Appendix B, "Output Devices"] of the manual seems to suggest that it's primarily meant to describe entire physical pages to printers. It does list two ([https://archive.org/details/SCODLProgrammersGuide/page/n143/mode/2up "Number Nine Revolution Graphics Adapter"] and [https://archive.org/details/SCODLProgrammersGuide/page/n145/mode/2up "Targa 16, 24, 32 Graphics Adapter"] entirely electronic output devices, though. But [[Postscript]] can do this too, so I think it still fits in [[Page description languages]].		:: [https://archive.org/details/SCODLProgrammersGuide/page/n133/mode/2up Appendix B, "Output Devices"] of the manual seems to suggest that it's primarily meant to describe entire physical pages to printers. It does list two ([https://archive.org/details/SCODLProgrammersGuide/page/n143/mode/2up "Number Nine Revolution Graphics Adapter"] and [https://archive.org/details/SCODLProgrammersGuide/page/n145/mode/2up "Targa 16, 24, 32 Graphics Adapter"] entirely electronic output devices, though. But [[Postscript]] can do this too, so I think it still fits in [[Page description languages]].
	:: On that topic, though, Postscript is in all three of [[Programming Languages]], Page description languages, and [[Document]], Document being the category listed in the infobox. Meanwhile [[HP-GL]] is only in [[Graphics]] and Page description languages, with the latter listed in the infobox. [[DVI (Device Independent File Format)\|DVI]] is listed on Page description languages the page, but isn't a member of the category (it's only in Document). This despite that, except for Postscript being a full programming language, all three are essentially the same thing. So evidently there isn't a lot of consistency in this area. [[User:Effect2\|Effect2]] ([[User talk:Effect2\|talk]]) 08:21, 7 September 2020 (UTC)		:: On that topic, though, Postscript is in all three of [[Programming Languages]], Page description languages, and [[Document]], Document being the category listed in the infobox. Meanwhile [[HP-GL]] is only in [[Graphics]] and Page description languages, with the latter listed in the infobox. [[DVI (Device Independent File Format)\|DVI]] is listed on Page description languages the page, but isn't a member of the category (it's only in Document). This despite that, except for Postscript being a full programming language, all three are essentially the same thing. So evidently there isn't a lot of consistency in this area. [[User:Effect2\|Effect2]] ([[User talk:Effect2\|talk]]) 08:21, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
		+	:::"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
		+	:::But seriously, yes, I do value consistency but have not always achieved it; stuff here can be very inconsistent depending on what the authors felt was a good idea at the time, when things are confusingly ambiguous. [[User:Dan Tobias\|Dan Tobias]] ([[User talk:Dan Tobias\|talk]]) 15:13, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

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	:It's got a "Programmer's Guide" and it has opcodes, so it seems kind of programming-language-ish, of a low-level type closer to machine language than higher level languages. Does it describe pages, or just images? Or is there a meaningful distinction between them? Taxonomies/ontologies can get confusing. [[User:Dan Tobias\|Dan Tobias]] ([[User talk:Dan Tobias\|talk]]) 23:25, 5 September 2020 (UTC)		:It's got a "Programmer's Guide" and it has opcodes, so it seems kind of programming-language-ish, of a low-level type closer to machine language than higher level languages. Does it describe pages, or just images? Or is there a meaningful distinction between them? Taxonomies/ontologies can get confusing. [[User:Dan Tobias\|Dan Tobias]] ([[User talk:Dan Tobias\|talk]]) 23:25, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
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		+	:: [https://archive.org/details/SCODLProgrammersGuide/page/n133/mode/2up Appendix B, "Output Devices"] of the manual seems to suggest that it's primarily meant to describe entire physical pages to printers. It does list two ([https://archive.org/details/SCODLProgrammersGuide/page/n143/mode/2up "Number Nine Revolution Graphics Adapter"] and [https://archive.org/details/SCODLProgrammersGuide/page/n145/mode/2up "Targa 16, 24, 32 Graphics Adapter"] entirely electronic output devices, though. But [[Postscript]] can do this too, so I think it still fits in [[Page description languages]].
		+	:: On that topic, though, Postscript is in all three of [[Programming Languages]], Page description languages, and [[Document]], Document being the category listed in the infobox. Meanwhile [[HP-GL]] is only in [[Graphics]] and Page description languages, with the latter listed in the infobox. [[DVI (Device Independent File Format)\|DVI]] is listed on Page description languages the page, but isn't a member of the category (it's only in Document). This despite that, except for Postscript being a full programming language, all three are essentially the same thing. So evidently there isn't a lot of consistency in this area. [[User:Effect2\|Effect2]] ([[User talk:Effect2\|talk]]) 08:21, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

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	TrID calls the .SCD format produced by Image Alchemy "Agfa/Matrix SCODL bitmap". But I suspect it's actually a bitmap wrapped in a vector format. That would explain why IA can write SCD, but not read it. -[[User:Jsummers\|Jsummers]] ([[User talk:Jsummers\|talk]]) 20:33, 5 September 2020 (UTC)		TrID calls the .SCD format produced by Image Alchemy "Agfa/Matrix SCODL bitmap". But I suspect it's actually a bitmap wrapped in a vector format. That would explain why IA can write SCD, but not read it. -[[User:Jsummers\|Jsummers]] ([[User talk:Jsummers\|talk]]) 20:33, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
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		+	:It's got a "Programmer's Guide" and it has opcodes, so it seems kind of programming-language-ish, of a low-level type closer to machine language than higher level languages. Does it describe pages, or just images? Or is there a meaningful distinction between them? Taxonomies/ontologies can get confusing. [[User:Dan Tobias\|Dan Tobias]] ([[User talk:Dan Tobias\|talk]]) 23:25, 5 September 2020 (UTC)