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Chapter 3 - ColorSync Manager Reference for Applications and Device Drivers / Constants and Data Types

Constants for PostScript Data Formats

The ColorSync Manager provides the following constant declarations to specify the format of PostScript data.

enum {
   cmPS7bit = 1,  /* data is 7-bit safe */
   cmPS8bit = 2   /* data is 8-bit safe */
};

Enumerator descriptions

cmPS7bit

The data is 7-bit safe--therefore the data could be in 7-bit ASCII encoding or in ASCII base-85 encoding.

cmPS8bit

The data is 8-bit safe--therefore the data could be in 7-bit or 8-bit ASCII encoding.