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From: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312)
Subject: Re: LaserJet 4
Reply-To: brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com
Organization: Schlumberger/Anadrill Sugar Land, TX
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 12:29:39 GMT

In article <C0G5ux.EK1@ipars.cts.com>, scotto@ipars.cts.com (Scott O'Connell)
writes:
>[...]
>Within the first 15 pages through the printer I had a paper jam, 41.3 to
>be exact.  After opening the back of the printer I found that the first
>page started and about 2 inches later there was a second page coming 
>through at the same time.  I dismissed this first jam as a fluke and
>starting trying ppst, pcal, Word Perfect, etc.
>
>To make a long story short I have been having a terrible time with the 
>paper on this printer.  I've tried other paper and it doesn't seem to 
>make much if any difference.  I've never had a jam when using the MP
>tray so I suspect it's a problem with the drastic turns the paper makes
>when leaving the bottom tray.  I should mention that I might have had
>one or two paper jams with my LJIII.

You need to make sure that the two little metal levers for the fuser rollers
are flicked 'down' in the back of the machine.  If you don't do this, the
fuser rollers don't make good contact.  They are shipped in the 'up' position
for transport.
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From: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: I can put 2 pages on a sheet, but how to blow up a page onto 4 sheets?
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:33:32 GMT
Organization: U. of Maryland/NIST

Hello!

I would like to be able to blow up a complicated drawing by printing
four quadrants of it on separate letter-size sheets and pasting them
together. Does anyone have a simple way of doing it? 

I have several programs that do the reverse operation (put two pages
of text on a single sheet), but they don't seem to be able to do the
reverse operation; the FAQ did not seem to contain this either.  I
expect that this may as simple as appending four simple coordinate
transformation before four copies of the original file, but I am not a
Postscript expert and before I write a filter to do it myself I thought
I'd ask if more knowledgeable folks did it before me.

	Thanks

		

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Subject: Re: (HELP) How does one create a gold tone in PostScript?
Reply-To: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:25:53 GMT

Thanks.  This was exactly the answer I was looking for - an approximation.

Robert

In article <1ih1vmINN774@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cudac@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Tim Clark) writes:
> 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....
> >
> >Is there a combination of CMYK values that approximates a gold  
> >tone? 
> 
> There have been a number of replies pointing out that it's just not
> possible to achieve exactly the right effect. However, for those
> who do not want the expense of sticking gold leaf onto their pictures,
> and are prepared to accept a crude aproximation try an RGB of
> 238 221 40 (where 255 is the max).
 looking for a simpler way to achieve the same effect....
> >
> >Is there a combination of CMYK values that ap
From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Previewer desired.
Date: 9 Jan 1993 23:31:05 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: skorpio.usask.ca

What's a good unix postscript previewer that lets me look around, zoom in,
etc. without any fuss? Just like xdvi.


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From: pnor@se.alcbel.be (Philip Norris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Translate WordPerfect file into Postscript file
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:11:03 GMT
Reply-To: pnor@se.alcbel.be



In article <6680@pdxgate.UUCP>, ni@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Shengsong Ni) writes:
|>
|>Is there any program which converts Word Perfect files into Postcript 
|>files? I bring up this question because I can only access a laser printer
|>connected to an UNIX box. I appreciate any respones.
|>
|>--Shengsong Ni
|>

Use Wordperfect itself. Select a printer in Wordperfect which matches the
postscript printer which will ultimately print your document, but define
the port which the driver will use to be a file, not a port. Voila! The
file will contain the postscript which would normally be sent to the
printer port. The details to do this are in your Wordperfect manuals
(but approximately, from memory - version 5.1):

    DOS				WINDOWS
    * Shift-F7			File-->Print	to print
    * S				Select		select printer
    * 2 (Add)			Add		if you must add your printer
    * 3 (Edit)			Setup		change printer setup details
    * 2 (Port)			Port-->		specify where output goes ...
    * 8 (Other)			    -->File	... to a non-standard place
    * Device or Filename:	Filename	give full path + filename

Hope this helps. Your only problem then is to get the file onto Unix :-).

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Regards

Philip Norris - pnor@se.alcbel.be
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: saranen@staff.tc.umn.edu (David Saranen)
Subject: Mirror Images
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:22:18 GMT

Is there a way to print out a mirror image of a postscript file?
Someone wants to test some artwork for a printed circuit board,
and we need to get a mirror image of what the CAD package
generated.  THe program is retarded so it can't reverse the
image itself.

In the red book, there is a reference to MirrorPrint under 
setpagedevice; but apparently it is hardware dependent.
Does MirrorPrint work for an Apple II NT?  Trying to find
docs around here is really interesting.

Any hel p appreciated.  
Thanks
-Dave
saranen@staff.tc.umn.edu     University of Minnesota

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: number of pages
Organization: Hanse Networking e. V., Hamburg, Germany
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 17:28:22 GMT

bo@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bo Slaughter) writes:


>Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction...

>I need a program (piece of code, or whatever) that can read in a
>postscript document and print out the number of pages that WOULD 
>be printed if it were sent to the printer.

I an using:

grep "Page: " | wc

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From: zisk@adobe.com (Stephen Zisk)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: HELP: dictfull error
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:40:51 GMT
Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript
Distribution: na
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated

In article <1993Jan6.193827.26803@mdd.comm.mot.com>,
snead@mdd.comm.mot.com (Gregory Snead) wrote:
> When we print out the file with FrameMaker on a Sun to a
> LaserWriter Plus, it prints the document.  If we print out the
> file with FrameMaker on a Mac to a LaserWriter II, it generates
> the error:
> 
> 	ERROR: dictfull
> 	OFFENDING COMMAND: def
> 
> 	STACK:
> 
> 	{}
> 	/path_right

This dictfull error probably means FrameMaker on the Mac is not
storing things into its own dictionary, but is using whatever is on
the top of the dict stack, which could be userdict or md. In either
case there is a limit to how many keys are available. This limit
might not be reached on the Sun because there is no md (it is Apple-
specific) or because the Sun driver does not use as many keys in
userdict.

Another possibility is that FrameMaker is allocating its own
dict, but is not leaving enough entries for the keys required by
your HPGL/EPSF file. There are other possibilities, too, but I
would need a lot more context to determine the problem. Can you
provide more info?

Stephen Zisk (zisk@adobe.com)  Disclaimer: These are my personal views
Adobe Systems Incorporated     and do not represent the position of
Eastern Regional Office        Adobe Systems Incorporated.
24 New England Exec. Park
Burlington, MA 01803           They pay me but they don't muzzle me!
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.periphs.printers
From: decouty@irisa.fr (Bertrand DECOUTY, Atelier)
Subject: Re: Cancelling jobs being processed (Q)
Reply-To: decouty@irisa.fr
Organization: IRISA-INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 08:36:00 GMT

In article 22690@adobe.com, zisk@adobe.com (Stephen Zisk) writes:
>In article <justin.726213640@tasman>, justin@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au
>(Justin Ridge) wrote:
>> Is it possible to cancel a job which is being processed in a PS
>> printer - specifically, in a Apple LaserWriter IINT/NTX/f/g?
>
>For any PostScript printer data stream there is an "interrupt" command.
>On serial and parallel streams, emit a ^C character. On Appletalk, I
>do not know the command, but you could look it up in Inside Appletalk.
>The effect of the command depends on the state of the printer job.
>
..
>
>If the cancel was received before end-of-job, the behavior is much
>more complex. Typically, it will be processed when the interpreter
>next looks for input. This may occur ahead of characters received
>earlier, due to buffer scanning. The interrupt will generate a
>PostScript interrupt error, causing execution of the interrupt procedure
>in errordict. This will typically cause an error message to be printed
>and the rest of the job to be flushed.
>

And after? what happens?
On Apple printers, nothing special happens, the next job is printed

ON HP 3Si (at least in rev 400), the printer HALTS!!! Yes, it stops
working, you have to shut off the power to restart it! For me it is
really incredible: remember that the 3Si is a heavy duty printer 
(16ppm, 50000 copies/month)! But for HP it seems OK...

When you know that CTRL-C is sent by TranScript when you lprm (remove
job) from the queue the job being printing, you can imagine the
disaster for other users...

PS: i have recently received rev 300 printers but not yet tested if 
they behave in the same manner.

PPS: HP3Si are based on Adobe PostScript.

>
>Stephen Zisk (zisk@adobe.com)  Disclaimer: These are my personal views
>Adobe Systems Incorporated     and do not represent the position of
>Eastern Regional Office        Adobe Systems Incorporated.
>24 New England Exec. Park
>Burlington, MA 01803           They pay me but they don't muzzle me!


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From: hh@soda.berkeley.edu (Eric Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Mac To Unix PostScript Files
Date: 8 Jan 1993 05:15:40 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec11.175429.28040@ennews.eas.asu.edu> scowen@wfpc3.la.asu.edu (Paul A. Scowen) writes:

>In a similar vein, does anyone have a simple piece of code, or csh script
>that will replace the ctrl-M's with UNIX <cr>'s?

Yes, /usr/bin/col will usually do the trick.

e
From: quodling@stimpy.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Print Time System Partner pages (mp?)
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:16:52 GMT
Distribution: comp.lang.postscript
Organization: SPR Alpha Migration Centre

In article <ETOBHAG.93Jan6185725@etn.etn.ericsson.se>, etobhag@etn.ericsson.se (Boerge Haga 2634) writes:
> 
> I have noticed the features of the mp command (POSTSCRIPT pretty print)
> to print pages that will fit into the Time Manager personal organiser
> (option -tm) and Time/System International organiser (option -ts).

Given that I use the "larger" TIME system organizer, I would love to get access
to this mp stuff. can anyone provide a pointer?

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From: mcw@ukc.ac.uk (M.C.Wheadon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Cancelling jobs being processed (Q)
Date: 6 Jan 93 11:20:14 GMT
Reply-To: mcw@ukc.ac.uk (Mark Wheadon)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

In article <justin.726213640@tasman> justin@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Justin Ridge) writes:
>Is it possible to cancel a job which is being processed in a PS printer -
>specifically, in a Apple LaserWriter IINT/NTX/f/g?
>That is, send a command to the printer which will remove the job that
>the printer is presently working on, when:
>a) the job is in the process of being downloaded
>or
>b) when it has been downloaded and is being drawn by the LW.

Yes - send a control C to abort the job.  The LaserWriter will then
say:

	^C
	%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%

so you will then need to send a control D.

Cheers,

bUrt
From: mharriso@digi.lonestar.org (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: I can put 2 pages on a sheet, but how to blow up a page onto 4 sheets?
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:41:09 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

In article <PRZEMEK.93Jan7123332@rrdstrad.nist.gov> przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:
>Hello!
>
>I would like to be able to blow up a complicated drawing by printing
>four quadrants of it on separate letter-size sheets and pasting them
>together. Does anyone have a simple way of doing it? 

I think there is a program in the "Blue Book" by Adobe that
will do this.  I don't remember any of the details, but you
can get the source from the adobe server by sending a mail
message to

	ps-file-server@adobe.com

containing the line 

	send Programs bluebook.shar

Send a message containing the line "help" for more information
on the server.

Hope this helps,
Mark.
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From: andrewn@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Andrew D. Nimmo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.text.desktop
Subject: Info on colour matching systems...
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:54:25 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London

I'm  looking  for  information on  colour  matching systems  used   by
printers.  Pantone is well-known; can someone point  me to information
on other systems?  Addresses for sources of information would  be very
useful too.  One final question---how can I get a Pantone colour book?

Thanks for any help.

Andrew
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: Rent-a-Lemming <ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu>
Subject: Re: PS for beginners
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:41:27 GMT

>>>>> On Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:59:33 GMT, ciacovel@telesciences.com (Chris D
>>>>> Iacovelli) said:

Chris>  I am looking for a good source of info for help in learning
Chris> postscript code.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

_PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook_ (aka "the Blue Book")
Adobe Systems Incorporated
ISBN 0-201-10179-3
$18.95

At least that's what my copy sez.

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From: rickcl@pogo.wv.tek.com (Rick Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Filtering ^D from PS files
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:52:48 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.


In article <1602@twinkletoes.sbi.com> rpd@twinkletoes.sbi.com (Richard P. Daley) writes:
>From a Postscript neophyte...

>Can anyone tell me whether it's safe to strip out all ^D characters from an
>arbitrary Postscript file?  Is it possible for a Postscript file to have
>^D characters that can't be stripped out?  For example, is there a way to
>imbed bitmaps or other binary data using non-printable characters?

You can remove ^D from files which have ASCII and binary data.  If the file has
raw data you can't.  The serial and parallel ports will handle both ASCII and
binary data.  AppleTalk will handle raw data.

The difference between binary and raw data is binary data has special
characters quoted (^D, ^C, ^S ...).  In level II, the ^D won't appear as a ^D 
in the data.  In level I, different printers quoted binary data differently, so
many programs didn't send  binary data because it wasn't consistant.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,news.answers
From: d89cb@efd.lth.se (Christian Brunschen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: where can I get the  Usenet Guide to PostScript  ?
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:49:21 GMT
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

subject says it all.

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From: cudac@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Tim Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: (HELP) How does one create a gold tone in PostScript?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 10:51:34 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk

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....
>
>Is there a combination of CMYK values that approximates a gold  
>tone? 

There have been a number of replies pointing out that it's just not
possible to achieve exactly the right effect. However, for those
who do not want the expense of sticking gold leaf onto their pictures,
and are prepared to accept a crude aproximation try an RGB of
238 221 40 (where 255 is the max).

This works quite well on a Tektronix Phaser Postscript printer. This has the
advantage that the wax gives a slight sheen. The result is not unreasonable
on other devices, including colour screens. If you apply the criterion of
displaying the result to the person in the street and asking them what colour
it is - if 9 out of 10 say gold, then it will do. I haven't done exactly
that, but when I used these values for the gold part of the University crest
most who saw it thought it was OK. (I know they were _expecting_ to see
gold, and that no doubt influenced them.)

I would be interested to know what other values people have used.

My values were obtained by simple iteration around integer RGB values
in the range 0 to 255, one idle weekend when we had a Tektronix Phaser on
trial. My partner and I just compared the result, by eye, with the large
area of gold-coloured ink on a common UK cigarette packet! (No flames
for my anti-social smoking habit please :-)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: zisk@adobe.com (Stephen Zisk)
Subject: Re: Cancelling jobs being processed (Q)
Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:03:57 GMT

In article <justin.726213640@tasman>, justin@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au
(Justin Ridge) wrote:
> Is it possible to cancel a job which is being processed in a PS
> printer - specifically, in a Apple LaserWriter IINT/NTX/f/g?

For any PostScript printer data stream there is an "interrupt" command.
On serial and parallel streams, emit a ^C character. On Appletalk, I
do not know the command, but you could look it up in Inside Appletalk.
The effect of the command depends on the state of the printer job.

If the printer has already received and acknowledged the end-of-job,
the interrupt will not typically work, but will be interpreted as if
it was part of the next job. This means, for instance, that a job
which sets /#copies to 1000, does some simple drawing and a showpage,
then ends, cannot usually be interrupted once the end-of-job has been
processed. I say "usually" and "typically" because this behavior is not
well defined in the Red Book, and various clone implementations may
behave differently. (This is not meant as a slam against clones, just
an observation that they may choose to do things differently).

If the cancel was received before end-of-job, the behavior is much
more complex. Typically, it will be processed when the interpreter
next looks for input. This may occur ahead of characters received
earlier, due to buffer scanning. The interrupt will generate a
PostScript interrupt error, causing execution of the interrupt procedure
in errordict. This will typically cause an error message to be printed
and the rest of the job to be flushed.

If the printer has multiple pages in process or a sofware page pipeline,
some arbitrary number of pages may be printed after the interrupt.
Additionally, if the job has issued a read command against the input,
has set up an appropriate stopped contex, or has redefined the interrupt
procedure, it may be resistant to interrupts.

Stephen Zisk (zisk@adobe.com)  Disclaimer: These are my personal views
Adobe Systems Incorporated     and do not represent the position of
Eastern Regional Office        Adobe Systems Incorporated.
24 New England Exec. Park
Burlington, MA 01803           They pay me but they don't muzzle me!