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From: jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat)
Subject: Re: questions on eps bitmaps and dsc conformance
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:54:39 GMT


> 1.  A program that tells me whether a PS document is DSC conformant.
> 
> 2.  A program that would take PostScript made from some home grown
> programs and would create the bitmapped version for inclusion to make
> an espi file.  If my program is DSC conformant

Hi! The FAQ is dead; long live the FAQ. The FAQ is available by
anonymous ftp to wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/comp.lang.postscript in ASCII,
LaTeX, DVI, and PostScript formats.

I've been sending direct email to people who ask FAQ questions, so
that you won't have to see me post 5 messages a day about common
topics. Sorry that because of this you missed out on the quick
answers! :)

Your question is answered in the EPSF section. Please write me if you
couldn't find what you wanted, or would like to add more.

-Jon
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: latendrm@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Latendresse Mario)
Subject: Converting X color (24 bits color) image to postscript.
Keywords: Preview
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:49:25 GMT


I have been looking around to find a program to convert
images, dumped by the xwd program from a 24 bits color
display, into PostScript (Level 2).

Anybody knows such a program and where I could get it?

Mario

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: gandalf@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (lance.larsen)
Subject: converting from PostScript (ps) to Encapsulated PostScript (eps)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:06:41 GMT
Keywords: postscript, eps, conversion, tools, bbfig, epsinfo.ps


I'm looking for a utility that would read a PostScript file and insert
a BoundingBox line with the correct numbers for x1, y1, x2 and y2.
I suspect that this actually what many of the recent inquiries about
postscript to encapsulated postscript conversion have been about.
I read through the FAQ and found references to two utilities:

	bbfig
	epsinfo.ps

I was unable to locate them on any of the machines here and I don't
have access to archie (or xarchie) to go browse FTP sources.
Anybody know where I could get these utilities?  Or, know where some
other utility that does the same thing can be found?
Since we are looking at hundreds of files from dozens of screen capture
and art generation packages, the manual method of printing out each
postscript file, measuring the bounding information and inserting the
BoundingBox line in the file is not particularly appealing!


I'm also looking for a screen capture utility that can capture screens
from applications running on a Sun workstation using OpenWindows
or OpenLook and produce encapsulated PostScript files for inclusion
in troff text files.  It seems that utilities that produce eps
files can't capture application screens in the OpenLook or OpenWindows
environment on the Suns.  And, utilities that do work in that
environment don't produce eps files (i.e., no BoundingBox line, etc.).
Any pointers to a screen capture program that does both would be
greatly appreciated.

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From: eesb3erl@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Postscript To .Bmp File
Date: 11 Nov 92 11:28:59 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology


	Is it posssible to convert a postscript file produced by windows
	3.1 back to it's origonal .bmp format ???????

	I know this sound mad but i have the postscript file for an image
	i went and deleted by mistake.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: Need Arabic Font, who sells such?
Organization: Trilithon Software
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:10:21 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.174012.3526@news2.cis.umn.edu> peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu  
(Peter Eisch) writes:
    *  Subject says the question.  It must be an outline font.
	Linguists Software,
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From: stolte@irit.irit.fr (Nilo STOLTE)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: text formatters written in PostScript?
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:46:04 GMT
Organization: IRIT-UPS, Toulouse, France

**>rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
**:> connolly@convex.com (Dan Connolly) writes:
**: >I am interested in a text formatting system written in PostScript.
**: >would read data from the input stream (similar to the way
**: >the image operator, or any number of image decompression operators
**: >read data from the input stream). Then it would arrange the text
**: >on successive pages and render the text.
**: 
**: This falls into the category people like to call "Theoretically Possible,
**: but..."  It is possible to format text in PostScript, but it's really not
**: very well suited to the task.

**Nevertheless, I have written one!  My original reason for doing so was ...

  I've done it also!! I thought I was the only crazy enough person able to do
such a thing. In reallity it was written JUST IN POSTSCRIPT. I agree with Dick
that it is not very well suited to the task, but I will explain exactly why. 
  The reason is just the only disadvantage of using it. You've got to have as many
%%Page: comments as you "suppose" your text will definivivelly occupy. As I remarked there is a bit of transcendental felling to know before formatting how many pages your document will have.  Of course you can have an idea that your
text would never exceed n pages, so you put n comments. As the text becomes bigger
it is more difficult to know it and to put n times the comment  %%Page:
  So it is appropiate only to small texts not to big ones (say: 100 pages is too
much for it)
  My reasons for doing it. Well, in reallity was the portability. You can type the text (with the program together) in ANY machine and transmit it to the printer
to execute it. Nowadays, I use Latex, that you can TYPE in any machine but you
CANNOT EXECUTE in any machine, because not every machine has Latex, but every machine has a text editor that you can type your text inside a previous file with
the PostScript program)...

My mail adrress is stolte@irit.fr. I can send a copy of it if asked.

Nilo.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: mon001@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it (Carlo Savi)
Subject: Postscript -> CCRF (calcomp raster format) ???
Organization: C.d.C-Politecnico di Milano
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:30:01 GMT

i want know if anyone had a converter postscript -> CCRF (calcomp raster
format) or if exist a similar converter
i have a calcomp electrostatic plotter model 68436 an i will plot a
bitmapped image... if possible

                   thank Carlo

e-mail: mon001@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it
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From: rjq@phys.ksu.edu (Rob Quinn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How to print a large ps file?.
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:11:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: moe.1ds0feINNq9c
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: bohr.phys.ksu.edu



 Disclaimer: This is what I know (believe) for SunOS. Your actual setup may
vary.

In <1992Nov10.193426.25560@cs.wayne.edu> nar@usha.cs.wayne.edu (Nagarajan Ramesh) writes:
>Well, the memory on my printer is limited to 300000 bytes.  Therefore, 
>when I send a postscript file from my workstation to my printer, 
>there is not enough room to copy the whole file onto it. The error
>message I get is 
>lpr: temp.ps: copy file is too large

 There are two different size limits here. The error message you are seeing
is for the size of the file on the UNIX machine. When you print a file, it
copies it first, and then prints it. Usually it copies it to somewhere in
/var/spool (but see your /etc/termcap to be sure). If the printer is remote,
then it copies it to the remote machine first, and then the remote machine
prints it. What you are seeing is an error message about the size of the file
that can be copied to the spool directory. Since it was never copied, nothing
was ever sent to the printer.

>One could use a symbollic link (lpr with the -s option) on SUN OS, wherein
>instead of copying the file, a link is created and therefore the printer
>memory is not a limit - atleast in theory.

 The symbolic link means that the file is not copied to the spool directory,
but printed straight from the source. The same number of bytes will still be
sent to the printer. If you are using a remote printer, the -s option will not
work. If you are still getting 'lpr temp.ps: copy file is too large' even with
-s, you might try to login to the remote print server and print the file there
using -s. To tell if a printer is remote, look in the /etc/termcap for an
'rp=machinename' entry for the printer you are using. If the printer is not
remote, and -s doesn't help, then I don't know.

 Once you do manage to send the large file to the printer you might still hit
a printer memory limit. In that case, refer to some of the earlier postings
about cutting up PS files.

>But again, apparently there
>is a limit even for this kind of operation. So, then my question is 
>- how do I print the large postscript file?.

 Login to the printserver
 lpr -s filename
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From: fst@doc.ic.ac.uk (Frank Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Font question and possible ghostscript bug.
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:33:17
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College.
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: cfast.doc.ic.ac.uk


Ok, I'm trying to print the character called odieresis (btw I don't
know all that much about PS programming). So after some digging around
I decide that I have to create a new font with a different encoding
vector.

First of all, is this the correct way to do it?

When, I wrote a small test program that was meant to do this and I
used ghostscript to check the results... I found that ghostscript and
my HP Laserjet III and PS cartridge differed in their output for the
following code:---

%!
% PS program to demonstrate what I think is a gs bug.
%
% I wanted to output the char odieresis and therefore created a new font based
% on Times-Roman but with a new encoding vector (having all slots paint
% an odieresis).
%
% The following is a test piece of code that should do this. The new font is
% called TR-Mine.
%
% The output of the program should be
%
%     Hello$$$$$There
%
% Where Hello is larger than There and the $s are odieresis'.
%
% The Bug:
%
% If the base font for TR-Mine is the same as the font being used for text
% at the time of changing to the new font then gs does not do the change
% properly. The output I get is:
%
%     HelloabcdeThere
%
% But if I change the base font to Helvetica (e.g.) then I get the correct
% output (with Helvetica odieresis').
%
% The code works as expected on an HP Laserject 3 (with PS cartridge).
%
% Note: I may be doing something wrong as I'm only a PS newbie!

% Create a copy of Times-Roman
/Times-Roman findfont dup length dict /myfont exch def
{1 index /FID ne
  {myfont 3 1 roll put}
  {pop pop}
  ifelse
} forall

% Change the encoding to make a into odieresis.
/newencoding 256 array def
0 1 255 {newencoding exch /odieresis put} for
myfont /Encoding newencoding put

% Register changed font.
/TR-Mine myfont definefont pop

% Select normal text font.
/Times-Roman findfont 20 scalefont setfont
100 100 moveto
(Hello) show

% Use newly created font.
/TR-Mine findfont 20 scalefont setfont
(abcde) show

% And now use a different font.
/Times-Roman findfont 10 scalefont setfont
(There) show 
showpage

%----------------- End of code ---------------------------------------

Is this a known bug with gs? Is this the correct way to get hold of such
a character?

Any help or guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Frank.

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat)
Subject: Re: Is there interest in comp.sources.postscript?
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:17:30 GMT


Yes, it would be nice to have a new newsgroup, which would include
source postings.

Could this new newsgroup also be for more general discussion
of programming PostScript? Our beloved comp.lang.postscript seems
to be more than half devoted to asking and answering questions about
using PostScript. I think that this is a fine, fine service that 
PostScript-ers provide to each other and to newcomers.

Still, it would be nice to concentrate directly on programming aspects.

This goal would probably clash with the idea of having a source just for
posting large PostScript pictures, which as Kevin noted, are really
just big pictures with very little interesting PostScript. There
are thousands of tools that produce PostScript out there, most of them
not really being PostScript but being Framemaker or MacDraw or something.

Therefore, I guess I'd suggest having a newsgroup for "programs
and ideas", not for "sources" which seems to hint at a newsgroup
in which nothing happens except large things get posted.

Here is a suggestion name:

comp.graphics.postscript

There already exists comp.graphics, comp.graphics.avs, comp.graphics.explorer,
comp.graphics.research, comp.graphics.visualization, comp.graphics.animation,
comp.graphics.gnuplot, comp.graphics.opengl

---------------------------------------
Having suggested one alternative, let me suggest the reverse now
just to be confusing!

Most comp.lang groups are mostly for talking about the languages,
so perhaps the comp.lang.postscript group should do that and
the Usenet group for *using* postscript would be

comp.text.postscript    or  comp.graphics.postscript

Anyway, as usual I am probably way out in left field. Hope to hear
some more opinions on this subject!

-Jon
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cvx 0 y}dup dup/Times-Roman<2066696E64>3 y 100<7363616C65>4 y<2020736574>3 y
90 rotate 0 -612 p 1 1.8 scale 36 144 moveto <50532020202020207B484F4E4B7D2069
66> show gsave 220 130 p {0 0 moveto 29 58 29 -45 180 arc} cvx dup 0 y -1 1
scale 0 y gsave 0.6 setgray fill grestore 2 setlinewidth stroke showpage
From: pinghua@emily9.Berkeley.EDU (Pinghua Young)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: psnup
Date: 14 Nov 1992 04:15:03 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: emily9.berkeley.edu

This may be a dumb questions, but is there a psnup program that
works with PostScript file which itself contains EPS files?

I tried the pnsup from wuarchive.wustl.edu but it didn't work
with included EPS graphics (I mean it didn't shrink the graphs).

Any pointers will be appreciated.  Thanks!
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From: jeusfeld@picasso.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Manfred A. Jeusfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: MAC-Postscript IS NOT Postscript, what can I do?
Keywords: postscript, Mac, laserprep,
Date: 5 Nov 92 12:01:47 GMT
Organization: University of Aachen, W-Germany

(Aaarrrgghhh!!!)

I have a couple of papers written on a MacIntosh system (MacWrite and
Word). I always thought that the Mac programs would produce normal
Postscript but that just does not seem to be the case - UNFORTUNATELY.

When I print the output to a file (instead on a LaserWriter) then
I am not able to print this MAC-Postscript file on a normal
laser printer (or display it on a screen with ghostscript).

I know that the problem is the missing laserprep file. UNFORTUNATELY,
the laserprep file on the Mac is copy protected (I don't know why).

We have NewsPrint software that includes a laserprep clone and I tried
it. In fact, I succeeded to include the laserprep file with the command
 newsprint/bin/pl --r --e /bin/cat file.macps :epsf_filter :laserprep > file.ps

Not too bad, BUT the file will continue not to be printable. The
Postscript interpreter complains about the very first command:

   Error: /invalidaccess in def                 :-(
   Operand stack:
       /LW  999
   Execution stack:
      %interp_exit    --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--
   Dictionary stack:
       399/479  4/200  399/479

(generated by ghostscript)


Mmmh. CAN anybody give me a hint how I can convert MAC-ps to ordinary ps??


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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: psikr01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Peter Kretschmar)
Subject: Re: Is there interest in comp.sources.postscript?
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:05:03 GMT

I would definitely be interested in such a group. A good mix of "just nice
pictures" (esp. useful ones, like maps) and interesting sourcecode would be
nice. If the traffic was rather low, I wouldn't mind at all - gives you more
time to evaluate, what's coming.

Start the CfD ...

Peter
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: brooks@usiva.com (Lyle D. Brooks)
Subject: Who bakes the Best PostScript?
Organization: Universal Systems Incorporated
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:39:18 GMT

Newsgroups: dc.test
Subject: Verification of Posting
Distribution: dc
Organization: Universal Systems Incorporated

This is a test of posting an article to the net via Pnews.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Wanted: DSC Compliant Verification Program
Distribution: world
Organization: Universal Systems Incorporated

I read alot about PostScript interpreters/printer/viewers requiring
DSC compliant structure.  Has anyone written a DSC Compliant verification
program?  If so, where can I get a copy?

Thanks in advance.

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Who bakes the Best PostScript?
Distribution: world
Organization: Universal Systems Incorporated

I was wondering which applications generated the best PostScript documents
and conversely which applications generate awful PostScript?  If we held
a PostScript bake-off who would come in 1st, 2nd, etc. ??

While I'll leave it up to you what "best" means, I tell you what got me 
thinking about this.

I do alot of printing of PostScript documents.  Every so often, someone brings
me a PostScript file that I can't print.  As I started to debug the problem
I read Appendix G in the Red Book that talks about DSC Conformance.  I 
examined a small informal sample of PostScript documents and couldn't find
one that looked "DSC 3.0 Compliant".  When I got a PostScript Viewer, I found
that more often than not it couldn't digest the PostScript documents.

Also, I saw a demonstration where the phrase "Hello World" was created on 
a page by three different PostScript applications and then saved to file.
The three files barely had any commonality or pretense of adhering to a 
standard.

So what makes for the best PostScript??

a) DSC conformance
b) Size
c) Performance
d) Readability
e) Viewing
f) None of the Above

Any opinions??
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From: kk@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Konstantinos Konstantinides)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:01:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Converting X color (24 bits color) image to postscript.
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript

In comp.lang.postscript, latendrm@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Latendresse Mario) writes:

> 
> I have been looking around to find a program to convert
> images, dumped by the xwd program from a 24 bits color
> display, into PostScript (Level 2).
> 
> Anybody knows such a program and where I could get it?
> 
> Mario
> 
Try xgrab, export.lcs.mit.edu in contrib

KK
From: dok_mki@sovb23pki-nbg.philips.de (Manfred Kipp)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: FrameMaker-PS-Code into Illustrator-88-PS-Code (or Illustrator 1.1)
Date: 9 Nov 92 11:17:51 GMT
Reply-To: dok_mki@pki-nbg.philips.de
Organization: Philips Communication Systems, Nuremberg, Germany


Hi out there,
I'm trying to get FrameMakers-PostScript-Code (including Previews) 
into Illustrator-88-PostScript-Code (or Illustrator-1.1 or 3.0-Code - Illustrator runs on Mac)

I'm working on Sun- and MacIntosh using both versions of FrameMaker3.0 (Sun-OpenWin3)
I know Pageview on Sun, I know the FM-comments in FrameMaker's PS-Code and I tried many ways.

The only solution seems to be, to create filters like: MIF2Illustrator or FMPS2Illustrator.

Or is there any other, much easier way to get the solution?

Thanks in advance for any hint.
p.s. I'll summarize all effective hints.

manfred kipp
From: jensen@sapwdf.UUCP (Leif Jensen-Pistorius)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Canvas and Postscript
Summary: How to preview postscript with Canvas
Keywords: Preview
Date: 10 Nov 92 14:10:03 GMT
Organization: S.A.P. AG, Walldorf Germany

Hello,
I am often read (eg. in the FAQ of this group), that I can preview Postscript
Files with Canvas. I have Canvas 3.0.3 (German) and if I try to do this I
get only a box without the possibilty to view or edit the Postscript.
In the Handbook I found no Information.

If you have a solution, please e-mail direct:

jensen@sap-ag.de

Thanks
Leif Jensen-Pistorius

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript