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From: merklin@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ed Kemo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: epson lx
Date: 26 Dec 92 16:12:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: mintaka.1992Dec26.161207.1594
Distribution: comp.lang.postscript
Organization: /etc/organization

Hello netters!

I have an epson lx-800 and would like to some postscript programming 
on it.  Is this printer postscript compatible.  I remember someone
telling me that I could use wordperfect to do this..Any help is 
greatly appreciated.. Please reply to me at merklin@gnu.ai.mit.edu
thanks again and happy holidays
ed
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Saturday, 2 Jan 1993 14:45:52 MST
From: Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Recycle font available

For those of you who wanted the recycling logo: I've converted the
Macintosh font Recycle to an ascii PostScript file, and put in on
my machine, available via anonymous ftp.

To get it, ftp to tux.fa.asu.edu, log in as anonymous, and get
pub/Recycle. You might want to use binary mode; I think there're
some long lines in there that might get screwed up with text
transfers.

I haven't had an opportunity to test the conversion to make sure
that everything worked correctly; if you have a problem, please
let me know.

b&
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Justifying strings, how??
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:34:22 GMT

In article <zisk-181292180203@macne003.boston.us.adobe.com> zisk@adobe.com (Stephen Zisk) writes:
(justification on the printer...)
> This works well, but puts the load onto the PostScript interpreter.

<stringwidth> seems to be a cheap operator. 

> For tests, short jobs, and personal use, this is fine, but if you
> are writing a driver with performance in mind, you should at least
> consider doing the job on the host.

I don't know about that. I've used text-to-Postscript preprocessors, and
even on printers with a cheesy 68000 I've got better results in terms of
page speed letting the printer do this sort of thing. It seems that parsing
Postscript (breaking up numbers, words, etc) is relatively expensive
compared to executing the Postscript code... at least, that's what my
informal timings (printing a sizeable text file in MP, TEXTPS, PPS, and
other front ends) seem to imply.

As always, your milage may vary. Run tests both ways and see what happens.

Personally, I would prefer it if programs made decisions like this as late
as possible, so I can print a document with a different font (say, my printer
doesn't handle Palatino and the company is too cheap to buy a softfont)
without screwing things up too badly.
-- 
Peter da Silva                                            `-_-'
Ferranti International Controls Corporation                'U` 
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012 USA
+1 713 274 5180                            "Zure otsoa besarkatu al duzu gaur?"
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: NeWS
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:25:08 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.171830.13334@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton) writes:
> In article <1992Dec17.205058.12133@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>  writes:
>     *  Is this newsgroup considered an appropriate forum for the
>     *  discussion of NeWS?

You mean, apart from comp.windows.news? I guess so.

> One would not want to bet too much of anything on NeWS.

Unfortunately, Sun killed NeWS and doesn't seem interested in doing anything
smart (like releasing it under an X-like license) to revive it.

(NeWS, DomainOS,... (hums) all the lonely software, where does it all go to...)
-- 
Peter da Silva                                            `-_-'
Ferranti International Controls Corporation                'U` 
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012 USA
+1 713 274 5180                            "Zure otsoa besarkatu al duzu gaur?"
From: ez000345@othello.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: ps -> hpljIII
Date: 23 Dec 92 02:12:51 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

Hello:

I want to convert postscript code (or a pbm/ppm graphics file) to be
printed on a HP Lasetjet III.... either UNIX or DOS (ibm) would be great!

Is there such a program available?

Thanks!!

--Val Luck
valuck@ucdavis.edu

-- 
  \  /        |        _ |,      valuck@ucdavis.edu       Today is the 
   \/ /\ |_   |__ |_| |_ |\      valuck@ucdavis         tomorrow that you
     Valentine A. Luck II        ucdavis!valuck       worried about yesterday
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Peter Fischer)
Subject: Re: NeWS
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University
	<1992Dec18.171830.13334@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:30:49 GMT


>>>>> "Henry" == Henry McGilton (henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us)

Henry> One would not want to bet too much of anything on NeWS.  When
Henry> you cut through all the dross, posturing, and face saving, NeWS
Henry> is essentially a dead duck.

That, unfortunately, seems to be true.

There is no official word out of Sun yet, but with the recent deal
with Adobe to "integrate Display PostScript into the Solaris
environment" there can be little doubt about it.

This is (to cite a fine Jagger & Richards song) Sad, Sad, Sad. NeWS
was such a fine idea and had some many good points. NeWS is dead. May
its ideas live and prosper.

/Lars
--
Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | It takes an uncommon mind to think of
CS Dept., Aalborg Univ., DENMARK. | these things.  -- Calvin
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: goldman@orac.cray.com (Goldman of Chaos)
Subject: Re: problem manipulating binary data in postscript
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 28 Dec 92 11:20:13 CST

In article <1992Dec28.171257.27785@news2.cis.umn.edu> cahoon@femto.cs.umn.edu (Forrest Clinton Cahoon) writes:
>I'm trying to write some postscript which will color a hexagonal grid,
>reading the color data from the end of my ps file.  I'm reading one
>byte for each hexagon, then doing some bit-twiddling to get values to call
>setrgbcolor with before filling the hexagon.
>
>I've got a version using "read" which works, but since "read" treats my
>newline characters as valid binary data, it's not entirely
>satisfactory.

Cool, please let me know what you come up with.  I've been playing
around with multi-colored hex maps; however, I've been building the
hex map one hex at a time.  The end result is nice; however, there 
must be a better way to go about it.

Matt Goldman
-- 
Matthew Goldman              E-mail: goldman@orac.cray.com
Fax: (612) 683-3099                   Work: (612) 683-3061
      "Say George, I don't mean to interrupt, but 
       there's a glowing red dot on your forehead."
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: grover@cash.isri.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover)
Subject: Re: Reading postscript on PC.
Reply-To: grover@isri.unlv.edu
Organization: Information Science Research Institute (UNLV-ISRI)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:42:50 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.004740.14324@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, ioffe@ivory.bgu.ac.il (Ioffe Nicolay) writes:
) 
) Hello netters!
) Maybe you can solve my problem.
) I've viewed some .ps file with xpsview on Silicon station in our lab.
) After I copied it and tried to view it with CorelDraw in Windows(on Pc).
) I used filter for Adobe EPS(since there wasn't any other filter) and got
) the message : Wrong format.
) Maybe someone can point me how can I read PostScript on PC, an
) How to print it on HP LaserJet IIP, which is not Postscript printer.
) 
) Nick
) 

CorelDRAW is NOT a PostScript processor.  It can read certain EPS
files (specifically, those created by Adobe Illustrator, and those
created by CorelTRACE.)  When reading these file formats, it does not
execute the commands, but rather turns them into internal CorelDRAW
objects which you can then manipulate.  (I.e., CorelDRAW understands
what each of the little PostSript procedures that AI defines does, and
converts them into an internal format).  You can think of AI and
CorelTRACE EPS files as a very specific subset of PostScript.

If you want be able to view any PostScript file, get Ghostview (for
the PC).  It is GNU Freeware.  There are also severl commerical
products.

- kev

PS	Ghostview view is on SIMTEL20 in <MSDOS.POSTSCRIPT>, and on
	its mirrors (oak.oakland.edu) in /pub/msdos/postscript/gs*.zip
	(there are also some font files you will need, look at the
	Index file for more information)
From: bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: (HELP) How does one create a gold tone in PostScript?
Date: 28 Dec 92 12:21:43 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: kauai.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com's message of Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:04:43 GMT


In article <1992Dec28.000443.7228@hot.com> Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com writes:

   How does one create a gold tone in PostScript?  I realize that gold is  
   a metal and to create it you need to either render it or use a gold ink  
   but I'm looking for a simpler way to achieve the same effect.  I have  
   some artwork containing gold arcs and lines which will be printed on a  
   Canon CLC color laser printer.  Note that the artwork is pure  
   PostScript and was not created using an application.

   Is there a combination of CMYK values that approximates a gold  
   tone?  Is there a sample of a rendered gold image that I could use as  
   a fill pattern?  How would I do the latter?

   Robert La Ferla
   Hot Technologies

Gold is yellow plus the impression that the surface is
`metallic'/`specular', just as silver is white/grey plus an impression that
the surface is `metallic'/`specular'.  You cannot create the impression of a
metallic color merely by manipulating RGB or CMYK at a pixel. Context is
important. 

Surfaces with a specular component of reflection can sometimes be discerned
because of strong localized high-lights, particularly high-lights that
change in position as the viewer (or the light source) moves.  In other 
words, the way to get the impression of `gold' or `silver' is to create a
suitable spatial distribution of light and dark, preferrably with
a large dynamic range.  The best impression of `gold' would be in the
portrayal of a curved surface, where most of the surface is shown as black,
with one or more near parallel narrow streak of light yellow, with the
brightness varying within in the sreak from the edge towards the center.



Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: jgroves@cs.ulowell.edu (Jonathan Groves)
Subject: serverdict Passwords in non-volatile memory
Summary: How does one reset the serverdict password in NVM?
Keywords: serverdict setpassword NVM password
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:00:17 GMT

I have a printer that is refusing serverdict commands,
%%[Error:PasswordIncorrect; OffendingCommand: exitserver ]%%

I read this as somehow a password got set.
After reading the printer manuals, I have found out the
password is stored in NVM.

Is there any way to reset the password via PostScript?
Is there a way to do it physically (a switch)?

The printer is a TI OmniLaser 2115, and the serverdict
worked before this week..

Please send replies via e-mail and I will post a summary.

Thanks.

+-+n               Jonathan Groves       Internet: jgroves@ulowell.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Peter Fischer)
Subject: Re: NeWS
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:26:16 GMT


>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Everett (fishboy@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU)

Jon> Is this newsgroup considered an appropriate forum for the
Jon> discussion of NeWS?

comp.windows.news

/Lars
--
Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | It takes an uncommon mind to think of
CS Dept., Aalborg Univ., DENMARK. | these things.  -- Calvin
From: seltzer@sda.com (Wayne Seltzer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: serial ports on original Apple LaserWriter
Date: 28 Dec 92 21:36:20 GMT

I just started using an ancient Apple LaserWriter via its serial port.
There seems to be an occasional flow control problem.

Unlike most "modern" ps printers,
this version of the hardware/software only supports software flow control.

I vaguely recall a "uart.ps" that modified the serial driver to fix the
problem. It might have even been developed by Adobe.

Anyone ever heard of it?  Or possibly have a copy?  

--
Wayne Seltzer                                  seltzer@sda.com
Software Design & Analysis, Inc.               +1 (303) 444-9100
1113 Spruce St, Suite 500, Boulder, CO 80302
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: plph@engin.umich.edu (Mark Montague)
Subject: enscript work-alike needed
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 13:43:09 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

I'm looking for a program that will print text files on a postscript printer
with nice headers, font control, multi-column output (especially in landscape
mode).

enscript will do all this, but as I understand it, enscript is a part of
Adobe's Transcript package and costs $$$.

Is the any public domain or copylefted program that will do the same sort of
stuff?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mark Montague
plph@caen.engin.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Monday, 28 Dec 1992 15:15:48 MST
From: Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: recycle logos in postscript
Distribution: comp

There's a pd or shareware Type 1 font (in Mac format, but see
previous articles on fixing that) called Recycle which has
many different recycle logos, including all the ones for plastics,
with the correct numbers inside. Last time I checked, it's on
sumex-aim.stanford.edu:info-mac/font.

If somebody's desperate for this font and can't get it out of
Macintosh format, I can probably help.

b&
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: postscript to fax
From: paolo@deis102.cineca.it (Paolo Ciampolini)
Date: 29 Dec 92 11:21:27 +0100
Distribution: world

 Is there any way to translate a postscript file into a  standard fax format ?
 I would like to transmit fax messages by using an internal fax/modem board
 on a msdos computer. Messages are composed in LaTeX, converted into postscript
 by dvips, and may include graphics (e.g., EPS files, via psfig or epsf     
 packages).
 At present, the only way I figured out is to use ghostscript to translate the
 postscript file into PCX, which is one of the formats my fax software 
 recognizes (others are TIFF and IMG, aparts form ASCII).
 I understand that ghostscript should be able to drive fax devices, but 
 this feature seems to be lacked by the MSDOS version. 
 Any hint is greatly appreciated.
-- 
  Paolo Ciampolini        paolo@deis102.cineca.it
  
  University of Bologna
  Dept. of Electronics
  Phone: +39 (51) 644 3013
  Fax:   +39 (51) 644 3073
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: ron@vpnet.chi.il.us (Ron Winograd)
Subject: Postscript to HP Series II converter?
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:48:55 GMT




Does anybody have a post script to HP series II unix based convertor?
One would be much appreciated, either via email or if you happen to know
where I can ftp it.

Thanx.

-- Ron
Ron Winograd        <Insert huge 20 line sig here>        ron@vpnet.chi.il.us
From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: behandler.ps .... actually used it ? Useful ?
Summary: COLLECTION of family of behandler.ps files.
Date: 25 Dec 92 08:18:23 GMT
Reply-To: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Organization: UMass, Amherst MA + Temporal Sys & Computer Networks Bombay India

Hi,

  Have you used behandler.ps ? Could you get it to work ?

  When prepended to an errant PostScript file, it is supposed
to print out error messages, so you have a fighting chance
to debug the postscript.

  It was interesting, and I thought it would prove very useful
on-one-of-those-days .. so I fished out a copy. Then (luckily)
I decided to give it a try. 

Nothing happened when I sent it with a PS file with a known typo
to a DEC LN03 ScriptWriter. Hmm ... bug in the debugger ! :-)

  So I got talking to Fred, to whom this utility is tracable, when
I learnt that each PostScript printer has different names for the
server dictionary etc.  So in general behandler.ps cannot be
general purpose.

  I wish I had with me in that case, a set of behandler files
for most popular printers, so I dont get caught tearing my hair out
with an unknown bug and a strage printer when I have to borrow a
printer when I am on the move.

 +------------
  So have you used behandler.ps ? 
  Has it worked for you ? Which laser printer did you use it with ?
 +------------

If you had to make any modifications in behandler.ps, could you
mail me a copy please ?

Or have you any error handler programs done in PostScript that
work with your printer ?

I'll summarise.

-- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu )
From: vamsee@abgen.tamu.edu (Vamsee Lakamsani)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: printing a range of pages from a postscript file
Date: 22 Dec 1992 16:27:43 GMT
Organization: Center for Macromolecular Design, Texas A&M University.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: abgen.tamu.edu

I have an 80 page postscript document and I need only pages 50-60,75,
78 and 80 (this is just a silly example). Is there someway that I can tell
the printer to print only these pages?  The printer is an Apple LaserWriter 2.
We use "/usr/bin/lp". Is there some software for extracting only these 
pages from the document ? I have used "dviselect" for this on a "dvi" file.

Vamsee
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.periphs.printers
From: hue@coney.island.COM (Pond Scum)
Subject: PPD file omissions and strangeness
Originator: hue@coney
Organization: Island Graphics and Hot Tub Repair of Marin County
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:53:01 GMT


I'm working on a program which uses PPD files and to test it I grabbed
a bunch of PPDs off the Adobe file server.  I have run into some weird
things in PPD files and was wondering if anyone else had run into similar
problems and what you decided to do about them:

1) Why do the Lino PPDs for PostScript versions < 52.3 have entries
   for *SetResolution, but versions > 52.3 do not have entries for
   *SetResolution?  We have a RIP 30 with 52.3 and I'm pretty sure
   you can change the resolution if you do an exitserver first.

2) The entries under *ScreenProc seem pretty useless, especially if
   the device has a screen filter installed.  There is a special PPD for
   an AGFA SelectSet 5000 with the screen filter active, but RoundAGFASpot
   and EllipticalAGFASpot (or whatever they are called) not listed under
   ScreenProc.  It would be very useful if they were.

3) According to the PPD spec, the value following *MaxMediaWidth is an
   integer inside double quotes.  I got L3330523.PPD and L530_523.PPD
   off the Adobe file server and the numbers after *MaxMediaWidth were 
   not inside double quotes.

4) None of the PPDs for the Varityper imagesetters have a *CustomPageSize
   entry.  From looking at the file it seems you could use the setpage
   operator almost the same way as setpageparams on most other RIPs?
   I could swear that I used a Varityper imagesetter once and it supported
   the setpageparams operator.

5) One of the Varityper PPDs has the wrong invocations to set the
   resolution to 1270.  It actually tries to do "270 setresolution".
   Of course, there could be some really weird bug where you have to
   say "270" instead of "1270", but I doubt it.


Actually, if you've ever done anything at all with PPD files I'm interested
in hearing about it.

Jonathan Hue		hue@island.COM
From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: printing a range of pages from a postscript file
Date: 23 Dec 92 04:07:42 GMT
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.

In article <1h7flvINNjc1@tamsun.tamu.edu> vamsee@abgen.tamu.edu (Vamsee Lakamsani) writes:
>I have an 80 page postscript document and I need only pages 50-60,75,
>78 and 80 (this is just a silly example). Is there someway that I can tell
>the printer to print only these pages?  The printer is an Apple LaserWriter 2.
>We use "/usr/bin/lp". Is there some software for extracting only these 
>pages from the document ? I have used "dviselect" for this on a "dvi" file.

You don't state your platform. However, we use Ghostview for this -
you pick the page numbers from a list and it extracts them to a file,
taking into account the prologs and so on. The PostScript must be DSC
compliant. We run it on workstations running VMS and various Unixes
(Unixi?) but it may well be available for DOS, OS/2, Macs etc.




--
Chris Lilley
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: rodd@jpradley.jpr.com (Rod Dorman)
Subject: Re: Changing the Font Encoding
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:04:03 GMT
Organization: Unix in NYC

In article <6627@ebt-inc.UUCP> jlv@ebt.com (Jeffrey Vogel) writes:
>I have successfully written PostScript code to change the encoding of
>a font vector to ISO-8859.  However, the font metric files which I 
>have gotten from adobe.com seem to contain metrics only for the
>"standard encoding".  Does anyone know where/how I can obtain
>font metrics for ISO-8859 encoding...

You don't say what format your metric files are.  If they are standard
Adobe Font Metric (AFM) files then all the characters in the font will
have their font metrics following the "StartCharMetrics" tag.  Any
"composed" characters metrics can be derived from the information
following the "StartComposites" tag.

If you're dealing with some extract format then ???
-- 
					-- Rod --
rodd@jpr.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: ravens@wam.umd.edu (Raven Silverthorn)
Subject: Base-line Composition Standard.
Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:18:14 GMT

I was wondering if there were any standards in PostScript for Base-line or 
Off-base line composition.

Thanks,
Brian
ravens@wam.umd.edu

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: Lutz@ifwpc5.fertigungstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Marcel Lutz)
Subject: Looking for converter ps -> gem
Organization: University of Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:14:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: ifwpc5.fertigungstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Hi there,

like many people before I am also looking for a program which offers the
possibility to convert postscript-files in any format (e.g. GEM) which is 
readable by PC programs (e.g. CorelDraw).

Thanks in advance for your help

Marcel
From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: printing a range of pages from a postscript file
Date: 23 Dec 92 04:10:10 GMT
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.

Regarding my last posting: I wrote "you don't state your platform"

In article <1h7flvINNjc1@tamsun.tamu.edu> vamsee@abgen.tamu.edu
(Vamsee Lakamsani) writes: 

>We use "/usr/bin/lp". 

I might have drawn an inference from that if I read it slower before
posting ;-(

--
Chris Lilley
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