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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: PCL -> PostScript
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 08:14:18 GMT

I seem to need this as well--or, more specifically--a HP LaserJet
II-to-PostScript Level 1 filter.  I'm hoping someone else has
already done this; I don't have the sine qua non "LaserJet series
II Printer Technical Reference Manual" here, and it may take a
while to hunt one down.

					-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: shhong@dbserver.kaist.ac.kr (Seok-Hee Hong)
Subject: Help ! : Mac PS -> EPS
Organization: KAIST
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 16:45:36 GMT

Hi, X-Perts

	I am trying to convert Mac PS file to EPS file.
	But, I can't insert Bounding Box into Mac PS file,
		because Mac PS generally is one-line.

	Do anybody Knows How to insert Bounding Box into Mac PS file ?

Thanx

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: enscript for pc (or somthing like it?)
From: Jeff Wolfe <JTW106@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 21:20:05 EDT
Organization: Penn State University


I hesatate to ask this, but I didn't see anything in the FAQ about it, so here
goes..

Does anyone know of an enscript-like program for the PC? I'd like to be able
to do more than just wrap my ascii files in somthing that my PS printer
understands. Names, and pointers to FTP sites would be helpful.

Email me, and I'll summarize any responses I get.

advTHANKSance

 -- Jeff Wolfe                        "May the forces of evil become
 Inet: JTW106@psuvm.psu.edu (prefered) lost and confused on the way to
                                       your door."  -Carlin
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: netdraw@cs.curtin.edu.au (P. Musca - B. Allen)
Subject: bitmaps and the imagemask operator
Summary: help ite doesnt work
Keywords: bitaps<<
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 14:52:26 GMT

I am trying to produce a postscript file of a 48 x 48 bitmap...

using imagemask..... 

what i get..

	every six lines of the bitmap are reveresed (no mirrored is a better description)
 	
	i'll try and describe it in a diagram 


               /\         \    /
              /  \         \  /
             /    \         \/   
            /      \   \          /
           /        \   \        /
          /          \   \      / 

           correct        what i get ( assuming 1 slash/slosh is two line of a bit map )


		I hope some one can help..... Peter Musca



-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter R. Musca					Curtin University of Technology
netdraw@lillee.cs.curtin.edu.au			Perth, Western Australia.
From: staudt@physik.uni-kl.de (Willi Staudt AG-Linder)
Subject: FAQ? Text centered in a box!
Reply-To: staudt@physik.uni-kl.de (Willi Staudt AG-Linder)
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:15:07 GMT

% Hello all!

% I hope I don't bother you with an frequently asked question, but I'm a
beginner
% in postscript and I can't find the (maybe simple?) solution to the problem in
% the handbooks I have access to.

% All I want is a text printed in the center of a box!
% I included a fragment of my program, just to illustrate the problem:
% 'Box' and 'CenterShow' work fine and the text is left/right centered.
% Obviously the problem is the font height!
% When I calculated the y-coordinate I started with 'y-start + half-box-height'
% and the text showed above the middle. So I substracted 'half-font-height',
% but now the small letters 'g' and 'j' are partially outside the box!

% My question now is threefold:
% a. Why is the starting point of a letter not the lower left corner of the
%    matrix?
% b. How can I calculate the right 'offset' when I know the font height?
% c. It appears to me as if the font height 50 is not equal to my definition
%    of the box height 50 ?? Why is that so?

% Thanks a lot for any help!
%                              Willi


%!

/Box {                                 %---------------------------------------
  4 2 roll                             % draw a box
  newpath                              % stack:  x-start y-start width height
    moveto                             %---------------------------------------
    dup 0 exch rlineto
    exch 0 rlineto
    neg 0 exch rlineto
  closepath
} def

/CenterShow {                          %---------------------------------------
  dup                                  % print a string centered
  stringwidth pop 2 div neg            %---------------------------------------
  0 rmoveto
  show
} def

/x 100 def                 % lower left corner of box
/y 100 def
/w 200 def                 % width of box
/h  50 def                 % height of box
/f  50 def                 % font height

/Helvetica findfont f scalefont setfont

x y w h Box stroke         % print the box

x w 2 div add              % x-start + half-box-width
y h 2 div add f 2 div sub  % y-start + half-box-height - half-font-height
moveto

(Agthijkl) CenterShow      % show arbitrary text
showpage

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%  || FRG - 6750 Kaiserslautern    || staudt@rhrk.uni-kl.de       ||  /  \  ||
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu (Tim Arnold)
Subject: Re: conversion to tek40xx?
Summary: PS -> tek40xx
Organization: Department of Statistics, NCSU
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:38:00 GMT

I have found many interesting ways to convert graphics, but
so far, not the way I need:  I have to get from some standard
to the Tektronix graphic format for the TEK4010 or TEK4014
terminals.

I have Tek -> PS, but I need the opposite.  Any help out there?

The reason for this:
I am trying to support a diverse group of users on a variety of
machines so they can see graphs and typeset text (a la LaTeX).  I figure
that if they use Kermit and emulate a Tek4010, I'm in business--they
can see in real-time both fancy text and graphics.

If anyone has a better idea, I'll listen gladly!

Tim Arnold
arnold@stat.ncsu.edu


-- 
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Tim Arnold                      Instructional Computing
Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu  North Carolina State Univ.
BITNET  : ARNOLD@NCSUSTAT       Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh NC 27695
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: searsk@med.ge.com (Kevin D. Sears)
Subject: RFC: NeWSprint 2.0 & LW2g
Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript
Organization: GE Medical Systems
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 02:40:10 GMT

I'm about to convert my print server which is running on a Sun 3/260(SunOS
4.0.3) with Sun TranScript(v2.1.1+Adobe pscomm patch) to a Sun 670MP(SunOS
4.1.2) with NeWSprint(v2.0). The print server drives Apple LaserWriter
IIg's.

Now Adobe graciously fixed my TranScript to work with Apple's serial port
driver problem. Anyone experience good or bad results with NeWSprint?

Who: Kevin D. Sears-searsk@med.ge.com
What: System and Network Admin(a.k.a "Sr. Maintenance Droid")
Where: GE Medical Systems
Disclaimer: I know nothing for sure but I sure try hard!
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: mrl@tardis.pfc.mit.edu
Subject: HPGL to postscript (once more!)?
Organization: MIT PLASMA FUSION CENTER
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 13:41:54 GMT

I'm looking for a simple HPGL to postscript converter.  It does not have to be
complete.  My files mainly consist of vectors and arcs.  Thanks.

Mark
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
Subject: Re: Exactly What does a Transformation Matrix Do?
Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 06:43:50 GMT

pandit@ssd.intel.com writes:
>Can some one explain exactly what each element of a six-element
>transformation matrix does?  I was under the impression it worked as follows:
>
>x y [a b c d e f] transform --> x' y'
>
>where x' = ax + b + cy and y' = dy + e + fx.

No--you've got the right idea, but the coefficients are in the wrong place.
Given your transformation matrix [a b c d e f], and your input coordinates
x and y, the transformation gives output coordinates x' y' as:
	x' = ax + cy + e
	y' = bx + dy + f
In terms of matrix multiplication, the user coordinates are shorthand for
the vector [ x y 1 ] and the 6-element CTM is shorthand for the 3x3 matrix
| a b 0 |
| c d 0 |
| e f 1 |
"Transformation" is a multiplication of the vector by the matrix (in that
order!) giving the new vector  [ x' y' 1 ] .

As long as the subject has come up, a digression/caution: Realize that
operators which modify the CTM (scale, translate, rotate, which are special
cases of concat) do so by pre-multiplying the new transformation with the
existing CTM.  The default CTM for a device invariably incorporates nonzero
translations (e,f above), scaling (a,b,c,d will be other than 0 or 1), and
sometimes reflections and/or rotations.

The CTM doesn't enter into what you sketched, since you used an explicit
matrix with the transform operator...but if you omit the matrix you'll see
the effects of the CTM.
-- 
Dick Dunn    rcd@raven.eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado
   ...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: pandit@ssd.intel.com (Milind Pandit,,,)
Subject: Exactly What does a Transformation Matrix Do?
Reply-To: pandit@ssd.intel.com
Organization: SSD Intel Corp.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:20:54 GMT

Can some one explain exactly what each element of a six-element transformation matrix 
does?  I was under the impression it worked as follows:

x y [a b c d e f] transform --> x' y'

where x' = ax + b + cy and y' = dy + e + fx.

1 1 [.5 0 0 .5 0 0] transform --> .5 .5  % first and fourth elements scale x and y
1 1 [1 1 0 1 1 0] transform --> 2 2      % second and fifth elements translate x, y
-1 1 [1 0 1 1 0 1] transform --> 0 0

However, I seem to be getting different results.

---
|  Milind S. Pandit                           |  Standard disclaimers apply.  |
|  pandit@iwarp.intel.com                     |-------------------------------|
|  Operating Systems Engineer, iWarp Program  |   Who knows what evil lurks   |
|  Intel Corp., Beaverton, OR                 |     in the hearts of men?     |

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: text formatters written in PostScript?
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:12:23 GMT
Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado

connolly@convex.com (Dan Connolly) writes:
>I am interested in a text formatting system written in PostScript.
>It 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.

PostScript is interpreted, and although that's not necessarily a damning
feature, it makes the efficiency problems a lot harder.  I think the two
basic problems here are late binding and latent types.  You can fiddle with
"bind" and //, and interpreters try to avoid re-evaluating binding where
possible, but it's still an issue...and latent types do require a lot of
extra code for run-time type checking.

PostScript string handling is weak and clumsy.  It turns out that for-
matters spend a lot of their overall processing time in line breaking,
hyphenation, and justification.

Also, you probably want the formatter to run on your host machine, so that
it can find hyphenation tables/dictionaries, include files of macros and
common text, etc.  This can be done, but it's not the model you suggested.

>i.e. what I'm looking for is troff or TeX or something, but written
>in PostScript...

At this point, most of us are probably asking "why PostScript???"  That is,
why does the implementation language matter?  It seems like PostScript has
no particular strengths, and several serious weaknesses.
-- 
Dick Dunn    rcd@raven.eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado
   ...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: inkari@snakemail.hut.fi (Juha Inkari)
Subject: Printing twoside (FAQ?)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 15 Oct 92 11:47:11 GMT



I have ps format documents I want to print twosided on a DEC Printserver
20. The printer is configured to do 1 side printing when printer name
is ps and twoside when jobs are submitted to ps-2s. The result is the
same - one page per sheet. I need a filter but where can I find it. I
have mpage, which I think I'll use too, but it doesn't seem to solve
my problem.

Thanks,
--
/* Juha.Inkari@hut.fi */
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PS output of xvgr
From: michele@deis21.cineca.it (Michele Favalli)
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:43:45 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science & Systems, Univ. of Bologna, Italy


xvgr produces postscript output in two formats: lanscape and portrait. Only 
the latter one is suitable to be included in latex documents (using psfig), but 
unfortunately graphs are quite deformed with respect to the picture that can be 
seen in the display. In order to use the landscape format I need to rotate 
the PS picture. There is any tool capable of rotating a postscript picture? 

Thanks all

============================================================================== 

Michele Favalli 
DEIS - University of Bologna                 tel. 39-51-644-3082 
Viale Risorgimento 2                         fax. 39-51-644-3073
40136 Bologna - ITALY                        e-mail: michele@deis16.cineca.it 

==============================================================================
 

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: tim@appenzell.cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Ghostview 1.4 Released
Date: 13 Oct 92 04:19:03 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

Ghostview 1.4 is available via anonymous ftp from:

    ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-1.4.tar.Z
    prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostview-1.4.tar.Z

    It will soon be propagating to the usual GNU distribution points:

            archie.au, archive.eu.net, src.doc.ic.ac.uk, isy.liu.se,
            ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de, ftp.funet.fi, ftp.diku.dk,
            ugle.unit.no, ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, wuarchive.wustl.edu,
            gatekeeper.dec.com, uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, and ftp.uu.net
            (under /packages/gnu).

        For information on how to order GNU software on tape, e-mail
        a request to:   gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu

Ghostview is an X11 user interface for the ghostscript PostScript
interpreter.  It runs on a wide variety of Unix systems.  As of
this release, it also runs on VMS.

Other than VMS support, no new features are included in this release.

Here is a quick summary of the major changes:

- Ghostview now runs on VMS.
- Ghostview sends PostScript to the ghostscript interpreter in a much
  more efficient manner.
- The DSC comment scanner has be revised to detect figures that are
  included without being protected by %%Begin(End)Document comments.
- Ghostview now properly destroys popup zoom windows and kills the
  associated interpreter.
- Ghostview automatically adjusts to not being able to allocate the
  backing pixmap.

For more details, see the HISTORY file.

For people that have difficulty building ghostview, I have placed executables
from several architectures in the ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-exe
directory.

...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: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
Subject: Galaxy & Gnuplot figures -- Latex
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:58:10 GMT


Hi,

   We have two programs here (Galaxy & Gnuplot) which 
   generate postscript figures.  We have tried to
   include them in LateX documents using psfig/epsf etc.
   in many different ways, and failed.  Do you know of
   any programs which will help us accomplish this task ?
   Any general hints on how to go about handling this
   problem will also be greatly appreciated.

   Thanks in advance,

Suresh
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: transparencies
Summary: printing onto transparency mateiral
Keywords: hey cool dudes
Date: 17 Oct 92 03:13:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct17.031301.18650
Organization: University of Washington


 
   	I have access to a laser printer.  I am interested in printing
onto  transparency material.  Howto?  
 
	Are there any other groovy materials that can be printed
with/onto with a PS printer?  I have  heard, for instance, of people
printing with this stuff that ends up making the final document appear
as if it was printed with gold leaf....
From: raj@phys.ksu.edu (S. Raj Chaudhury)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PS program for binder labels
Date: 7 Oct 1992 22:40:09 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: bohr.phys.ksu.edu
Keywords: PS labels binders

Someone recently posted a PS program that would do binder labels.
Christian Lindi was the posters name = however I missed it.
Could someone please point me to it?

Thanks,


--
S. Raj Chaudhury			|
Dept. of Physics    			|  raj@phys.ksu.edu
Kansas State University			|
Manhattan, KS 66506			|
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: Re: MSWord & MacWrite PS Formats
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:02:34 GMT

Gregory Lee Silvus (silvus@vauxhall.ece.cmu.edu) wrote:
: In article <1992Oct1.165705.19948@cs.brown.edu> jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat) writes:

: [ ... ] MSWord [ ... ] can be asked to
: output PS format. Unfortunately, I have also noticed that when I ask
: MSWord to produce PS files, it bitmaps *the entire document*. IMO, that
: bites the big one. Has anyone else experienced this? Does MacWrite
: give not bitmapped PS output? Any help appreciated.

Not quite, but almost.  The culprit is TrueType.  The LaserWriter driver
prefers TrueType fonts to Type 1, and whenever it can it prefixes your
PS file with the encoded TrueType fonts plus the PostScript code for
a TrueType interpreter.  This is the "bitmaps" you thought you saw.

Somewhere hidden among all this binary lies the reasonable PS version
of your MW document.

My approach was to delete the TrueType fonts, data security erase the
sectors they had occupied, and move the TT distribution floppy to a
locked cabinet in a room separate from my Mac.  So far, the LW driver
has not succeeded in finding them.  :-)

Another approach is to install the Trimmer CDEV, which filters this
garbage out of PS files generated by Mac applications.  Available
from your local archive site.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: spm@dar.csiro.au (McEWAN Shane)
Subject: PostScript page count filter for Unix
Organization: CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 06:43:48 GMT

G'day! In recent weeks I've been given the task of gathering accounting
information about our PostScript laser printers attached to our central
server here. Ideally I'd like to keep a record of the number of pages each
job prints.

I was wondering if anyone has written a program that will read
through a PostScript file looking for "showpage" as well as any macros that
include a showpage command.

That's the tricky bit.....you need to effectively write a mini PostScript
interpreter which is something I'm not quite up to, yet. *sigh*

Any hints, tips and tricks (or even full blown solutions ;-) will be much
appreciated.

Catchya!
--

  Shane McEwan     CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research    spm@dar.csiro.au
================================================================================
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: LaserWriter IINT and 8-bit data
Date: 13 Oct 92 03:43:41 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Oct12.141918.13349@eua.ericsson.se> euabec@eua.ericsson.se (Ake Beckman) writes:
<Hello!
<
<Apologies if this isn't the appropriate newsgroup...:-(
<
<I'm having problems with a Apple LaserWriter II NT that refuses to
<accept 8-bit data.
<
<We have an application that generates postscript containing 8-bit
<data. It prints OK on most printers except the LW II NT. The printer
<hangs off the serial port of a Sun IPX and I'm sure the printcap 
<entry is correct, because it works with a LaserWriter II NTX. 
<
<The thing that's driving me nuts is that the printers are identically
<configured. Both printers reports none-space,8-bit,1 stop-bit, and
<XON/XOFF, for both the 9 and the 25 pin serial port.
<
<Nevertheless the result is stripped to 7-bit.....
<
<Is this a known Intepreter/Hardware bug or a pilot error?
<
<The printer reports hardware revision 1 and Intepreter version 47.0.
<(The NTX has rev. 3 and Intepreter ver. 51.8)

Aren't you supposed to put out the data as two bytes instead?  That is what
I have seen done all the time.
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                                   brown@wi.extrel.com
From: snd@elan.cs.princeton.edu (Stefanos Damianakis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: unx: ps --> epsi ??
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:51:59 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Princeton University

hi,

does anyone know of a unix utility that will generate encapsulated PS from
a PS file? Or is this as simple as adding a bounding box and eliminating
the showpage?

thanks for any help,

-stef
(snd@cs.princeton.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript