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From: tim@appenzell.cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen)
Subject: Re: Latest and Greatest Ghostview
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:45:34 GMT

kyle@solbourne.com (Kyle Felton) writes:
> I was wondering what the latest version of Ghostview is, and where
> I might obtain it. 

The latest and greatest ghostview can always be found on ftp.cs.wisc.edu
(128.105.8.18) in the pub/X/ghostview.tar.Z file.  It propagates to
prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors shortly after appearing there.
You are welcome to use ftp.cs.wisc.edu at anytime.  You already have
the latest release (1.3).

> I have Ghostview version 1.3 on a Solbourne S4000 running X Windows,
> but for some reason it doesn't pick up the page numbers and put them
> in the left column for eroff 3.1 postscript files.  It also doesn't
> pick up the page numbering for FrameMaker 3.0. I was told
> that ghostview is capable of individual page selection for printing and
> viewing, but apparently my version of Ghostview doesn't do this or I am
> doing something wrong. Would some kind ghost.wizard enlighten me on this?
> You may post or send me email, and I will also do a followup on this.

The problem is that the documents do not have the proper comments.
The file must begin with %!PS-Adobe- for ghostview to even attempt to
read the comments.  People have written several perl and sed scripts to
help avoid some of the shortcomings in Framemake documents.
People are asking that Framemaker produce the proper comments.
Call Frame and tell them you want comments that conform to Adobe's Document
Structuring Convention in the PostScript files.

Hope this helps, ...Tim

          Tim Theisen           Systems Programmer
Internet: tim@cs.wisc.edu       Department of Computer Sciences
    UUCP: uwvax!tim             University of Wisconsin-Madison
   Phone: (608)262-0438         1210 West Dayton Street
     FAX: (608)262-9777         Madison, WI   53706
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: mathers@sibelius.trl.oz.au (Steven Mathers)
Subject: Postscript map needed
Reply-To: s.mathers@trl.oz.au
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:25:53 GMT

Can anyone help me find a Postscript map of Eurasia suitable for
expanding to A1 size?

Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Subject: Re: Straining PostScript or just stupid?
Reply-To: sanguish@digifix.com
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 03:46:12 GMT

Anthony A. Datri writes
> 
> Here's an example of what I think you're talking about -- it prints the
> words "scratch tapes" filled with text.  It takes 10-15 minutes to process
> on a QMS PS810.
> -- 
> 	[ps in other message]
> ======================================================================8--<

	I ran this on my NeXT and it took a grand total of 3744 ms to image to  
the screen.

	I can remember this kind of stuff taking 30-45 minutes on the first  
apple laserwriters.

	Scott

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- Scott Anguish -
sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail)
From: gandalf@vision.auc.dk (Lars Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: printing x pages on a single sheet of paper
Date: 31 Jul 92 11:32:55 GMT
Distribution: comp.lang.postscript, comp.text.tex
Organization: Laboratory of Image Analysis, University of Aalborg

Hi fellow netters,

I'm using psmulti to print 2, 4, 6, 8, ... pages on a single sheet of
paper and for selecting ranges of files from my postscript files and
it works just fine for most files, but when it comes to files produced
by dvips including postscript figures via. psfig I get a dictfull
error. I could start searching the files to find the bug, but I just
wanted to ask whether someone has already done this ?

I'm using dvips 5.47, psfig 1.5 and psmulti 1.0.

Any help/suggestions highly appreciated, thanks in advance,

   Lars F. Knudsen
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| Laboratory of Image Analysis   | Phone +45 98 15 85 22, ext 4967 |
| Aalborg University,            | Home: +45 98 16 94 74           |
| Fr.Bajers Vej 7                |                                 |
| DK-9220 Aalborg East, Denmark. |                                 |
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: grover@mighty-joe.isri.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover)
Subject: Re: rotation in postscript (stupid question)
Reply-To: grover@isri.unlv.edu
Organization: Information Science Research Institute (UNLV-ISRI)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 19:21:27 GMT

In article <3606@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>, toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) writes:
) 
) This bombed under OpenWindows 2 with this message:
) 
) It drew a circle with ticks and 3 numbers; then a second displaced
) ticked circle.  On my LaserWriter NTXII I just got the first circle
) and nothing else.  It's debugging time!
) 

Opps.  It worked under GhostScript 2.4.1, so I ASSUMED it was
correct!!  Actually the problem was that true PostScript interpreters
were adding a ".0" to the end if the degrees because the divide caused
the number to be a real instead of an integer (this was too long for
the 3 string buffer I was using).  The fix is to change the line
begginig with the command "10 div" to "10 div cvi" (i.e.  convert the
number to a integer.  (Or, the size of the string could be increased
to 4 to handle the longers strings, but then all of the numbers would
end in ".0", not as nice a fix)

I discovered this because it would not run on our NeXT machines
either ... Sorry for the hassle

For the those you who do not wish to find and correct this, the fixed
program follow my .sig

- kev

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Kevin O. Grover      | UNLV Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
 grover@isri.unlv.edu | ISRI - Information Science Research Institute
 CServe: [73627,1677] | 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas NV 89154-1017

%!
% Compase Rose ? (An(other) Attempt any Way)
% - Kevin O. Grover, grover@isri.unlv.edu
% Tue Jul 21 11:05:39 PDT 1992, Wed Jul 22 12:18:09 PDT 1992
%

gsave
 3 3 scale
 newpath				% Start a new path
 2 setlinewidth				% Draw circle in 2 pt line
 100 100 50 0 360 arc stroke		% Draw the circle

 /s 3 string def /Helvetica findfont 6 scalefont setfont
 100 100 translate 0 0 moveto		% Move origin
 10 10 360 {				% Draw longer lines
   gsave
     rotate
     0 45 moveto 0 10 rlineto stroke
   grestore
 } bind for
 1 setlinecap
 30 30 360 {				% Put arrows an numbers
   gsave				% Every 30 degrees
    dup rotate
    0 45 moveto 0 55 lineto stroke
     -2 50 moveto 0 55 lineto 2 50 lineto stroke 
     10 div cvi				% Eat the trailing 0 from number
     % If you don't want the number rotated with the line, delete
     % the "90 rotate", you can also delete the "gsave/grestore" pair
     gsave 1.5 60 translate 0 0 moveto 90 rotate s cvs show grestore
   grestore
 } bind for
 1 setlinewidth				% Change linewidth for short lines
 5 10 355 {				% Draw shorter lines
   gsave
     rotate
     0 47 moveto 0 6 rlineto stroke
   grestore
 } bind for
grestore
showpage



Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: katra@ttmath.ttacs1.edu (Rama Katragadda)
Subject: PS->EPS
Organization: Texas Tech University
Reply-To: katra@ttmath.ttu.edu
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 07:24:51 GMT
X-Posted-From: ttmath.ttu.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Hi,

I was wondering if there is any program to convert PS files to EPS files
so that I can include them in my latex document.

Any kind of Information is appreciated..
-- 
--katragadda--
(katra@ttmath.ttu.edu)
Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: sysmark@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt)
Subject: Re: Page counting software
Reply-To: mark@cita.toronto.edu
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 11:45:29 GMT

[ Michael Roberts ]

| In article <ROBERTS.92Jul15122728@dyall.admin.ists.ca> I wrote:
|
|    I am in need of some postscript page counting software.  The simpler
|    the software the better.  It would be nice if this software could read
|    in a postscript file on stdin and spit out the number of pages that
|    would be printed if it were sent to a PS printer.
|
| The replies I have got were generously received and I am gratefull for
| them.  They are based on digging up the %%Pages: comment in the
| actual postscript file to be printed.
|
| I do not consider this an acceptable solution.

 [ ... ]

| The reason I don't like the "use the %%Pages: line" idea is it's too
| easy for people to get out of paying their bill by editing the PS
| file, if you know what I mean....
|
| Any starters on how I can get ghostscript to count pages for me?  Also
| what is the magic needed to get a PS printer to cough up the number of
| pages it has printed?  Will this work with ghostscript?

I posted a similar query a few weeks ago, not only regarding page count
(and I agree that one wants something that will deal with non-conforming
documents, so the "%%Page"-counting approach isn't terribly useful), but
also would like to get an estimate of toner usage (so that we can nag the
people who print a lot of nearly-all-black pages).  I got one reply, from
Adrian Ho <adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu>.  I haven't had a chance to try
it yet (and probably won't for several weeks, at least; far too many high
priority things in the queue!), but it does sound promising:

| Ghostscript (and the PBMPLUS package) is the answer to both questions.
| I haven't actually implemented it (users here are reasonable about
| print jobs 8-), but (1) can be accomplished in Ghostscript by:
|
| (a) prepending and postpending PS code that redefines showpage to
|     increment a special counter before showing the image, and
|     returning the value to stdout at the end of the job, or
| (b) modifying the Ghostscript sources to keep an internal page counter
|     (this has the advantage of foiling any attempts to defeat page
|     counting by accessing the systemdict showpage operator directly).
|
| (2) is even easier: Preload pstoppm.ps (supplied with the GS
|     distribution), generate a 1-bit PPM file from the PS file, then
|     run ppmhist on it and estimate toner usage from the luminosity
|     histogram it spits out.
|
| Has anyone actually tried to implement these?

Mark Bartelt                                                416/978-5619
Canadian Institute for                             mark@cita.toronto.edu
Theoretical Astrophysics                           mark@cita.utoronto.ca

"Clothes not busy being worn are busy drying."  -  Dylan, on laundry day
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: s36596c@puukko.hut.fi (Petri Virekoski)
Subject: Please repost pspages
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:49:38 GMT

There was this nice program for dividing ps files called pspages.
Could you who once posted it here please repost it or
e-mail it to me directly.
Thanks very much.

  ___
 ( /_)_---_-------------------------------------------------
(_/  ( ! / )   Petri Virekoski --- s36596c@puukko.hut.fi ---
-------!/---------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: mcng@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Markus Ngus)
Subject: Color Postscript in DOS 5.0 /386
Originator: mcng@napier.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:28:31 GMT

I've been searching for months for a program that will prep. or convert a
gif or TGA or any raster format to color postscript in DOS.  


I've heard about PBM or something like that...  but I haven't found anything
like that in the DOS world..  If someone can advise me , much would be appreciated... 

either or both the location of PBM for dos ( I might be wrong with that 
Name : PBM )  and the color postscript converter for DOS /386... 

Thank-you 
.

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: spoon@athena.mit.edu (Hoony C Youn)
Subject: postscript to pict
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:50:03 GMT

Does anyone know of a "non-picky"postscript program or interpretter (on the Mac) that will
take just about any type of postscript file and convert it to a pict format?


Thanks .

Hoony Youn

spoon@athena.mit.edu
From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: rotation in postscript (stupid question)
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:58:32 GMT
Reply-To: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester UK

In article <3606@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) writes:

>% Compase Rose ? (An Attempt any Way)
> [... some code ...]

This gave an error on an HP IIISi with Adobe Postscript

Rangecheck: Argument out of bounds - offending command is cvs

I got a similar error with the DEC CDA viewer and Display PostScript.

	Chris
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: kjd@pyuxa.uucp (80731-desantis)
Subject: Needed: Legal (A4 size) portrait Prologue
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 16:50:27 GMT
Keywords: A4


Does anyone have a Portrait Prologue to output postscript to
Legal (A4 size) paper? I have the problem, of the text starting
about an inch down from the top of the page, as if it was seeing
8.5x11 inch paper, when indeed it is loaded with A4 size paper.
Nobody I've talked to seems to know anything about A4 size paper,
and I'm against a wall at this point. Anyone with any info on this,
I'd appreciate it.

thanxs...

Kathy


+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|Kathy DeSantis                      /  /                     |
|kjd@pyuxa.cc.bellcore.com          /__/          /    /      |
|(201)829-4766                     /  \   __.  --/--  /_    / |
|                                 /    \_(__/|__/____/ /__\/  |
|                                                         /   |
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Subject: Re: European point set
Keywords: datapoints
Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:35:19 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.032725.1226@nmt.edu>, randy@nmt.edu (Randy) writes:
|> I'm looking for a set of data points which describe the boarders of
|> Europe/Asia area.  I heard that such a listing (of sorts) was posted
|> here not long ago.  Could somebody post it again, post a location for
|> such a set of points, etc...

Take a look in news.news.lists.psmaps, it may have the information you
need.

-- 

Michael Salmon

#include	<standard.disclaimer>
#include	<witty.saying>
#include	<fancy.pseudo.graphics>

Ericsson Telecom AB
Stockholm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: rao@hsi.com (Ananth Rao)
Subject: Re: Needed: Legal (A4 size) portrait Prologue
Keywords: A4
Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford CT
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:46:41 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.165027.17243@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> kjd@pyuxa.uucp (80731-desantis) writes:
>
>Does anyone have a Portrait Prologue to output postscript to
>Legal (A4 size) paper? I have the problem, of the text starting
>about an inch down from the top of the page, as if it was seeing
>8.5x11 inch paper, when indeed it is loaded with A4 size paper.
>Nobody I've talked to seems to know anything about A4 size paper,
>and I'm against a wall at this point. Anyone with any info on this,
>I'd appreciate it.
>

In the past, I've used a package called 'a2ps' which converts ascii to 
postscript.  It can be ftp'd from rigel.acs.oakland.edu and can be found in
pub/unix-c/postscript/a2ps.tar-z.

a2ps allows you to set your paper margins at compile time.  For legal size
paper, I use "-DHEIGHT=14.0 -DWIDTH=8.5 -DMARGIN=0.5 -DLEGAL" - look in the 
Makefile for the first three options.

To access the lower tray on our HP laserjet IIId (which carries legal size
paper on the lower tray), I had to include the following code toward the 
bottom of a2ps.c:

       #ifdef LEGAL
		  printf("statusdict begin\n");
      	  printf("1 setpapertray\n");
          printf("end\n");
       #endif

I'm not sure whether this postscript header is HP specific but it does work
on our system :-)

-ananth
 

-- 
Ananth Rao                                    {uunet,yale}!hsi!rao
3M Health Information Systems                          rao@hsi.com
Wallingford, Connecticut
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: sjd@frieda.mitre.org (Stephen J. Darragh)
Subject: Arabic Fonts Wanted.
Organization: Research Computer Facility, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:53:33 GMT



I am looking for Arabic fonts for the Macintosh.
I have the Arabic system 7.01 and the four fonts that
come with it.  I would like to get more if possible.

Please mail a response as I do not have time to read
this group.

Thanks!
Steve Darragh
From: randy@nmt.edu (Randy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: European point set
Keywords: datapoints
Date: 27 Jul 92 03:27:25 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Tech

I'm looking for a set of data points which describe the boarders of
Europe/Asia area.  I heard that such a listing (of sorts) was posted
here not long ago.  Could somebody post it again, post a location for
such a set of points, etc...

thanks,

randy

randy@minos.nmt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: wrp@ivy.unisys.com (Bill Pringle)
Subject: EPS clip-art - patriotic - USA
Organization: Paramax Systems, Ivyland, PA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:45:23 GMT


Is there an anonymous ftp site containing clip art in EPS format?
My son-in-law is getting his U.S. citizenship next month, and I
would like to get some clip-art for invitations & posters for a
party.

Thanks in advance.
============================================================================
Bill Pringle                      Software Tools
Paramax Corporation               Voice: (215)443-7500 X4023
Internet: wrp@ivy.unisys.com      UUCP: ...!uunet!mimsy!widener!gvls1!wrp%ivy
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Pageview - postscript
Date: 25 Jul 92 03:32:54 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <4191@astroatc.UUCP> weeks%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu (Patrick Weeks) writes:
<
<	We are running SunOS 4.1.1 on Sparc II's and IPC's.  When loading
<a postscript file into pageview that contains more than one page, the pictures
<overwrite each other causing much grief and consternation...  Does this
<happen with all systems out there?  Is there a way to get around this?  Will
<anyone see this post?  Will Jack marry Emma?  Will George ever find out that
<Barbara having an affair with Dan?  Will anyone answer me after I left this odd
<news article?  Find out in the ..ackk!

The SunOS pageview requires DSC compliant PostScript when displaying, it doesn't
look for a showpage, which isn't a good idea.

They look for certain %% comments, especially %Page:  If your document is not
DSC compliant, pageview will never display it correctly.
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From: jeremy@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Jeremy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript Definitions
Date: 24 Jul 92 05:01:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: leela.1992Jul24.050136.18773
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University

In article <1992Jul21.214709.4538@u.washington.edu> seymour@milton.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) writes:
>
>Mathematica, like (far too) many other programs, uses a dialect of postscript
>requiring a definition file to be pre-pended to the file in question.
>The implementations of Mathematica i've worked with have some utility
> program (psview?) which does that job.  In the ultrix (DEC's version of Unix)
>version you tell it what file you want converted, and it spits it to "standard
> output"... so the actual "just gimme a file!" command is
>  psview infile >outfile
>and then outfile is ready-to-go postscript (not EPSF)
>--dick


Is this true of WordPerfect on DOS machines, and if so does anyone
have the definition file so that I can prepend it to files `printed'
to disk (using a postscript driver) and then pipe it off to a postscript
printer.


-- 
jeremy@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Jeremy |-) Smith)
I'm sorry Dave, but I'm afraid I just can't do that... well, yes I can!
SGNTR VRS VRSN 3.1B: Strppd nd cmprssd fr qckr trnsmssn! nfct yrs tdy!
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: alyoung@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (amy young)
Subject: Clueless question about PCPostscript to MacPostscript
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:54:53 GMT

In my past experience, I've had problems scanning in an image, saving
it as a postscript file, and then moving it between Mac and PC.  Now,
keep it simple for me, I'm not a computer god.  Something that had
been scanned in on one platform, and then put onto a storage medium
accessable both by Mac and PC machines, would work and function fully,
allowing editing in the proper programs, etc, on the platform under
which it was scanned.  However, using the other platform to work with
it lost the preview (in such applications as Pagemaker after placing)
and also it couldn't be retrieved to edit.  However, it would print
fine (such as from PM).  

Is there any way to easily move scanned images from one platform to
another, if the forms (TIFF, etc) are useable, such as through a
transfer (AFX didn't work for the above mentioned scenario... same
problem) program or such?  

amy


-- 
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	       		Ignorance and prejudice, and fear, walk hand in hand."
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.sequent,comp.unix.misc
From: joem@m2xenix.psg.com (Joe Moss)
Subject: Re: psroff - is there a free version available
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:07:00 GMT
Keywords: printing,postscript,text formatting

In <1992Jul30.182131.1924@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:

> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:

> >There's no such thing as a PostScript version of nroff or troff.  Because
> >both nroff and troff generate a generic format that requires post processors
> >to convert to the output device you want.

> 	Damn, I'll have to delete my copy of groff, then.

> 	I dunno - it's not "real" [nt]roff, but it takes [nt]roff input and
> spews PostScript out the other end. That's close enough to a PostScript
> version of [nt]roff for me, thankyouverymuch.

> mjr.

No, Chris is right (he usually is - at least when it comes to troff related
subjects).  As he said above, troffs require postprocessors/drivers to produce
anything but "a generic format".  He also stated:

>As far as "free" troffs, the only full-blown implementation is groff.  Which
>comes with PostScript, DVI, tty (ASCII) and X windows drivers.

As part of the groff package is a program which is actually called "groff"
but it in itself is *not* a troff.  It is simply a program that calls some
others, including "gtroff" which *is* a (di)troff and one of the drivers
Chris mentioned.  For example, if you want PostScript output it would pipe
the output of "gtroff" to the program "grops" which is a *postprocessor*
that converts the "generic format" (which is ditroff) into PostScript.

Joe V. Moss


Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript