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From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.graphics
Subject: Getting chromacity data from level 2 printers
Keywords: Chromacity CIE XYZ PostScript level2
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:10:12 GMT
Reply-To: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester UK

Hi

The new red book suggests that colours can be specified in CIE XYZ space
simply by parameterising the existing CIEBasedABC colour model with the
white point.  Like this

%%% Establish CIE XYZ space, Ref Manual p189-91 with the CCIR 
%%% recommended white point

[/CIEBasedABC <<
  /RangeABC [0 0.9505 0 1 0 1.0890]
  /RangeLMN [0 0.9505 0 1 0 1.0890]
  /WhitePoint [0.9505 1 1.0890]
>>]setcolorspace

This just sets the (X,Y,Z) coordinates for the white point and says that
all colour values must be in the range 0 to the white point.

Which would be used like this

0.7 0.27 0.03 setcolor

to get a nice red, for example. (Note that I cheated with this example by
making X+Y+Z=1, so I could read the coordinates off a standard xy diagram
like you see in any book on colour <grin>.)

Anyhow, this raises several questions which I had hoped someone here would
know the answer to:

A) The interpreter must store the CIE chromacity (xy) or tristimulus
(X,Y,Z) values for its inks internally. Indeed it must also store the
values for the secondaries too, since the (x,y) point of a secondary is not
on the line joining the (x,y) points of the two corresponding primaries.
*So* how do you get the interpreter to divulge these values?

B) what happens if you specify a colour that is outside the printer gamut?

C) what happens if you specify a coordinate that isn't even a colour? Like
X=0.7 Y=0.1 Z=0.2, which gives x=0.7, y=0.1 and is outside the flat edge at
the bottom of the 'tongue'. You will need to look at a diagram to udrestand
this, and I'm not going to attempt one in ascii!

Any answers are welcome, either email or post, and yes I will summarize any
answers in a later posting.

	Chris

PS Manufacturers of colour level2 PS devices are especially welcome to
reply! :)  Adobe is hereby extended a cordial invitation to provide an
authoritative answer.
From: tatlow@dash.lmo.dec.com (Tom Tatlow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PFM ==> AFM
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:00:41 GMT
Reply-To: tatlow@dash.lmo.dec.com (Tom Tatlow)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Hi.

I've found a lot of interesting PostScript fonts
for MS Windows's Adobe Type Manager
and I'd like to be able to use them to print from my Unix
machine (I'm not a PC person). 

Unfortunately, all I have are the .PFB and .PFM files
and what I *really* need are .AFM (Abode Font Metric)
files.

Does anyone know of a way to convert a .PFM
file into a .AFM file?

Thanks...



T?





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From: awhitton@bnr.ca (Alan Whitton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PSplot or PSgraph
Keywords: graphing
Date: 14 Apr 92 13:54:08 GMT
Reply-To: awhitton@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa


Hi:

I am looking for a PUBLIC DOMAIN or FREE-WARE version of a postscript
plotting package (or a UNIX plotting package with a postscript back end).
Could someone please help?

Thanks,
Alan Whitton
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: psroff generates huge files
Date: 11 Apr 92 06:36:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: vidiot.3246
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <id.S0PO.TAJ@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
<So. Where do I get a binary for GROFF for System V/386? I can't afford the space
<to install GCC let alone G++ to get it bootstrapped. Psroff at least works with
<the resources I have now.

If you can do anonuucp, let me know and I'll make groff available via that
route.  I have it compiled for ISC 2.0.2 (SysV.3.2) on my Compaq 386/20e.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: sloey@ssd.kodak.com (Jim Sloey (253-7956))
Subject: converting binary to integers?
Originator: sloey@coop
Organization: Eastman Kodak
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 14:42:39 GMT

Maybe this is really easy and I'm just not finding a reference somewhere, but
I need to do some math operations on values read in with readhexstring 
and can't figure out how to turn them into integers, perform the math, 
then put the resulting integers in binary back into the string.

example 
/mystr1 1 string def
/mystr2 1 string def
/mystr3 1 string def
currentfile mystr1 readhexstring fe
currentfile mystr2 readhexstring 01
% Now how do I add the binary value of mystr1 and mystr2, then put the
% resulting value (255) into mystr3 ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance...
Jim Sloey; Eastman Kodak Company; Rochester, New York 14650-1925; 
phone-716.722.7291   fax-716.588.5771    page-716.975.0803.
Email  sloey@kodak.com  or  dda=id=eksmtp.sloey%kodak@mcimail.com
eksmtp(sloey) or Country=US,ADMD=MCI,PRMD=KODAK,DDA=ID=eksmtp.sloey

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: goodill_eric@tandem.com (Eric Goodill)
Subject: Where is the FAQ list for this group?
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:54:01 GMT

I have a FAQ, but I don't have the FAQ answer sheet.  Is it kept online
somewhere via FTP?  If you have a recent copy, can you send it to me?

Cheers, Eric
From: talvola@qin.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Talvola)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Making downloaded PS fonts permanent
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:49:16
Organization: /usr/users/talvola/.organization
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: qin.berkeley.edu

This is probably in the FAQ, but I couldn't find one going back 
400 articles.  I am using an HP LaserJet IIISi with PostScript,
and I would like to download some fonts to the printer and make them
stay there.  How do I do this?  I assume I just put a header and/or
footer on the PS font.  This is running under VMS, so a program
which does this isn't really useful - PostScript code would be
best.  Thanks....

-- Erik

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From: steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript mode for Emacs?
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:12:35 GMT
Distribution: comp.lang.postscript
Organization: Acorn Computers Limited, Cambridge, UK

rjm@cs.brown.edu (Ralph Marshall) writes:
: Has anybody out there defined a Postscript major mode for Emacs?  As a
: Unitarian-Universalist I have few dogmatic positions about how the
: formatting shoud be done :-), so just about anything would be better
: than what I've got.  Thanks!

I don't have such a thing, but I'll offer my contribution to the
specification: it should be able to balance my little stack diagrams
automatically.  (In fact thinking about it, what I really want is a
preprocessor for PostScript that accepts stack diagrams and generates
the equivalent exch, rot and index instructions for me :-)

-- Steve Hunt
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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: psroff generates huge files
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:21:47 GMT
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada

In article <3363@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
|In article <1992Apr03.160755.13148@brtph560.bnr.ca> psycho@brtpa25.bnr.ca (Paul Jezioranski) writes:
|>A 25 page man file took up almost 800k of disk space when I "psroff"ed it.
|>I checked out the file and it appears that psroff grid maps each character to
|>the page as follows:

|>Is there any way to reduce the size of the output file, or am I using an
|>outdated version of psroff??

|Can't tell without you telling us what version of psroff you're running.

|Turn on the optimizer.

I guess I should be a little clearer, sorry.

The psroff optimizer (introduced at psroff 2.0, PL5 I believe) will
coalesce words into single "show"'s.  You will see a size improvement
of at least three, and a print performance increase around a factor of
10.  Resulting in performance similar to groff and pscat/psdit(Transcript)

Turn on the optimizer.

Current rev is psroff 3.0, PL10.  Optimization is on by default (since PL7
I think).

Peter, don't abandon psroff yet.
-- 
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Psroff 3.0 info: psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: wagnon@pms240.pms.ford.com (Mark Wagnon)
Subject:  Printer resource PostScript call
Originator: moconnor@pms704.pms.ford.com
Organization: Ford Motor Company Scientific Research Labs, Dearborn, MI
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 17:11:28 GMT

Anyone know the PostScript call to check printer memory and other
assorted statistics?  Is there a PostScript program "out there" that,
if sent to a PostScript printer, will output various facts about the
resources available to that printer?

						
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: raytrace@lillee.cs.curtin.edu.au (RayTrace project)
Subject: Display PostScript Previewer v1.1 for X Windows extension available
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 05:18:18 GMT

NB: This Previewer is for the X extensions for Display PostScript.
    It is for Silicon Graphics machines running 4.0x.

Hi,
	Thanks for all the replies. As you have probably seen xpsv
is available and I have now updated it in several small ways (due
to feedback from the net). Version 1.1 is available from
	ftp.cs.curtin.edu.au(134.7.1.1) in area ~ftp/pub/xpsv
It is approximately 1/2 a megabyte and is the file

total 1041
-rw-r--r--   1 raytrace project   532581 Apr 13 12:30 xpsv1.1.tar.Z

This contains source/doc/executables/resources file. Use and enjoy.

Grumbles to me (but remember I am on long service leave :?) )
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From: lawsonj@cs.man.ac.uk (Julian Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Determine total pages printed
Date: 8 Apr 92 10:54:02 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester


When you switch the baby on,it prints the total pages printed on the
startup page (bottom-right hand corner I think).
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: grover@mighty-joe.isri.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover)
Subject: Re: flip-flop printing
Reply-To: grover@isri.unlv.edu
Organization: Information Science Research Institute (UNLV-ISRI)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 18:42:53 GMT

In article <167C710C53.TROTH@ricevm1.rice.edu>, TROTH@ricevm1.rice.edu (Rick Troth) writes:
) From: TROTH@ricevm1.rice.edu (Rick Troth)
) Subject: flip-flop printing
) Organization: Rice University, Houston, TX
) Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 17:04:51 PDT
) 
) Hi,
) 
)         LaserWriters lay the paper face-down.  NeXTs put it face-up.
) Somehow on the NeXT,  documents are still ordered correctly ...
) unless I prepend a header.   What magic makes a single document
) come out "in order"?   What am I breaking by prepending a header?
) 
)  Rick Troth <TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU> -------- Rice Univ, I/S VM Systems Support


If the file conforms to the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions
there are comments in the file (starting with %%) that let other
programs know where the pages are.  The NeXT uses these comments to
assure that pages come out in order (by printing them in reverse
order.)

If you do not like this, try:

%%PageOrder: Ascending     

or somthing like this in the Header (i.e. before the "%%EndComments").
There is also another comment where you can explicitly declare the
order.  Or, you could simply strip all of the DSC comments: "$ grep -v
^%% file.ps" (NOTE the resulting file lies because the first line
still indicates that it conforms the DSC -- it contains the %!PS-Adobe
stuff.) 

I have run into this also.  I use a script called "multi" to print
mutltiple pages per physical page.  It does this by redefining key PS
operators.  However, it does not change the DSC comments in files that
have them and the NeXT feeds the pages to the program in reversed
order, so the result is not nice.  I plan on attempting to fix this --
some day :-).


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From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Any experiences with NEC Silentwriter 2 Model 95 printer?
Date: 16 Apr 92 10:14:22 GMT
Organization: Bull, P.O. Box 22859, NL-1100 DJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

NEC has released their Silentwriter 2 model 95 PostScript level 2
laserprinter (which is sold in some countries as type S62P,
being nearly the same, except for some small details).

Do you have any good or bad experiences with this printer?
Who can send me the results of the laserdoctor "benchmark" for it?

Please MAIL answers to me. Thanks.

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Xref: sparky comp.lang.postscript:2675 gnu.ghostscript.bug:474
From: ebrown@tap.kodak.com (Eric Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: How to convert fonts? (type3->type1)
Date: 12 Apr 92 18:13:55 GMT
Reply-To: nobody@kodak.com
Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript,gnu.ghostscript.bug
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company
To: gnu-ghostscript-bug@rutgers.edu@kodak.com

I own quite a few .afm files (fonts) (type 3 I believe) and would like
to convert those for use with ghostscript which I believe requires
type 1 font files (.pfa or .pfb).  Is there a way to do this?.  Is
there a program I can get to do it?  I'm trying to use it for high
resolution output and I'd like to stay away from bitmap fonts.

Thanks in advance,

Eric Brown
ebrown@tap.kodak.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: CADS_COLE@galluk (Kevin Cole; Washington DC)
Subject: VAX WordPerfect to HP LaserJet III Postscript
Organization: Gallaudet Research Institute
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 18:01:07 GMT

(Previously posted to: bit.listserv.wpcorp-l, comp.os.vms)

Greetings from the void,

We have a Gateway 2000 (386) running MS-DOS 5.0, and MSKERMIT 3.11.  It's 
hooked up to a HP LaserJet III with a PostScript cartridge.  It's also 
attatched to a DECserver.

On the VAX, we have WordPerfect 5.1.  In WP, I've set up the printer as HP 
LaserJet III PostScript, and specified passthrough printing.  With the LaserJet 
II, this deal seemed to work fine.  However, with the LaserJet III/Postscript 
combo, it doesn't.

It ALMOST works.  MSKERMIT turns on the printer, (PRN appears on the status 
bar), then I see a stream of characters run across the bottom line of the 
screen and the HP's ready light flashes as it displays "Processing Data".  All 
of this is similar to the behavior that it exhibited with the LaserJet II.  
WP finishes sending, but nothing ever comes out of the printer, nor does WP 
return me to the document.  An MSKERMIT Reset-Terminal (Alt-equals) will return 
me to the document screen, but the printer continues to flash that it's 
processing data.

I suspected (and still suspect) some terminal setting in either MSKERMIT, the 
DECserver or the DCL SET TERM command.  I called WP VAX support, and they said
they had no problems.  They even faxed me their DCL SHOW TERM, DECserver SHOW
PORT, and MSKERMIT STATUS screens.  When I set mine to be 100% identical, I was
actually in WORSE shape:  Entering WordPerfect threw me into Tektronics
emulation and then proceeded to make a mess of the screen. 

Here's what I believe might be the relevant settings:

From MSKERMIT.INI:
    SET BAUD         19200                SET PARITY       NONE
    SET FLOW-CONTROL XON/XOFF             SET HANDSHAKE    NONE
    SET LOCAL-ECHO   OFF                  SET TIMER        OFF
    SET DUPLEX       FULL                 SET DISPLAY      8-BIT
    SET TERMINAL     VT320                SET TERMINAL     BYTE 8
    SET TERMINAL     TABS AT 1:8          SET TERMINAL     COLOR 0,10,32,40
    SET TERMINAL     KEYCLICK ON          SET TERMINAL     BELL AUDIBLE
    SET TERMINAL     GRAPHICS VGA         SET TERMINAL     KEYPAD APPLICATION

From LOGIN.COM:
    $ SET TERM/INQUIRE/NOTAB/FORM/APPLIC/INSERT/TT/HOST/DIALUP/BRDC/LINE

From DECserver:
    DEFINE PORT TYPE ANSI
    DEFINE PORT BREAK LOCAL
    DEFINE PORT LOCAL ^\

(I tried removing the LOCAL switch (^\), but that didn't change anything.)

Any clues?  Thanx.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Underline font
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 14:09:35 GMT

In article <kuckd9INNsdh@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> rberlin@Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>% show a string, underlined.  Not very fancy, but gets the job done.

Shouldn't you wrap it in

	currentfont dup /FontInfo known {
		/FontInfo get dup /UnderlineThickness known {
			gsave
				... body goes here
			grestore
		} if
	} if
	show

To allow for fonts that don't have FontInfo (a few) or underline
information (quite a lot).
-- 
/F{findfont exch scalefont setfont}def /S{moveto show}def /T{/Times-Roman F}def
6 T (Have you hugged your wolf today?)468 20 S 9 T (Taronga Park BBS)24 35 S 10
/Courier F(`-_-')488 40 S ( 'U` )488 30 S 6 T (+1 713 568 0480 2400/n/8/1)24 27
S (+1 713 568 1032 Trailblazer)24 20 S 12 T (Peter da Silva)24 45 S showpage
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: burra@sun1.coe.ttu.edu (Gangadhar Burra)
Subject: Ghostscript 2.4
Organization: Texas Tech
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:55:54 GMT

I am running Ghostscript 2.4 under a sunos 4.1.1. The standard release of
ghostscript comes with an x11 device type for the unix environment. Would
somebody please tell me how I can generate an hpgl or hp inkjet format
output using ghostscript? 

Thanks very much.

Gangadhar Burra
Texas Tech Univ.
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: EPS to PS filter wanted.
Date: 6 Apr 92 04:35:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: vidiot.3230
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <92093.184008KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET> KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET (Karl Keyte) writes:
<That's not what EPS is for!  PostScript is for "just printing".  EPS is
<to facilitate the inclusion of imported (through one means or another)
<PostScript into a PostScript folder.  You shouldn't really be able to
<print EPS because it shouldn't really have a 'showpage' (though most do).
<Even if it has a 'showpage' it should have at most one and that should
<probably be ignored by the surrounding REAL PostScript.

Let me put it this way.  If the included PostScript doesn't print standalone,
it more-than-likely will not print if included into another document.  It is
a good idea to test the standalone EPS file to make sure that it will print.
Because an EPS file IS PostScript, just with special comments, it should be
able to print standalone.

<If EPS is just PS, who invented EPS and why?  It's not and there are all
<kinds of rules (though not strict enough) about what you should (or mainly
<should NOT) do in an EPS description.

But EPS is PostScript, pure and simple.  Sure there are some rules.  The rules
are there to keep the main PostScript from being corrupted.  Using a showpage
does not corrupt the main document, as the showpage can be temporarily defined
to do nothing.

I hope this helps a little bit.
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From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: EPSF in TIFF screen representation
Date: 11 Apr 92 11:03:09 GMT
In-reply-to: pauld@cs.washington.edu's message of 10 Apr 92 20:59:54 GMT


In article <1992Apr10.205954.21720@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:

   Hello All,

	   I am hoping someone can help me...  I'm in need of a program
   (most likely DOS based), which will produce true EPSF files with the
   TIFF format screen representation.  (Window's Metafile may be ok, but
   TIFF greatly preferred.)

How about any Windows graphical application such as Micrografx Designer,
Corel Draw!, Adobe Illustrator etc

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA