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From: lakhanp@ecf.toronto.edu (LAKHANPAL Sanjiv Kumar)
Subject: converting EPS files
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:16:19 GMT

Hello,

I have a few questions about concerning eps files.  I used to use corel
draw 2.0 and export to an eps file.  The file format was %!adobe 2.0 epsf2.0.
I then exported the eps file into WordPerfect for Windows without problem.

The problem arose when I started using Corel Draw 3.0.  It exports eps files
with the following header: 
			%!adobe 2.0 epsf1.2

These eps files seem to import fine, but when I go to print them out the
printer doesn't seem to respond.  The printer is an HPIIIp with a Pacific
Page Postscript Cartridge (ver 4.31).  I was wondering if their are any
utilities (preferably shareware) available for ibm clones capable of
converting between different versions of eps.      

Also, the old eps files used to contain a sreen representation of the       
drawings so that after importing the eps files I could see the image on
screen and resize and scale with a good idea of what the image looked liked.
Is this screen bit map represenation a feature of epsf2.0, because the
epsf1.2 files don't seem to contain the bitmaps (tiff i think).  Finally,
is it possible to hack an eps file so that these screen represenations
show up on screen?  Thanks in advance.                         


Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: scholl@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Cam Scholl)
Subject: PostScript --> PCL4
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 18:20:44 GMT

I am looking for a utility for my PC which will either print or convert
postscript files to HP-PCL4 format.  Basically I want to print postscript
on my HP Laserjet II.

Cam Scholl
Internet: scholl@gaul.csd.uwo.ca
From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Adobe Transcript 4.0 announcement?
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:32:40 GMT
Reply-To: km@mathcs.emory.edu
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS

I noticed that Adobe just announced a new version of Transcript. Does
anyone have the details of what has been added?

---
Ken Mandelberg      | km@mathcs.emory.edu          PREFERRED
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Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.bitnet              NON-DOMAIN BITNET  
Atlanta, GA 30322   | Phone: Voice (404) 727-7963, FAX 727-5611
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: Barcodes in Postscript
Organization: Trilithon Software
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:12:16 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.165203.16627@mtu.edu> cdh@mtu.edu (Chris Hooper) writes:
    *  I'd like to be able to print barcodes (specifically code
    *  3 of 9) using postscript.  If anyone out there has heard
    *  of this being successfully done in the past, please email me.
You can obtain complete fonts of bar codes and postal
codes in a variety of different formats from an outfit called

    Bear Rock Technologies
    6069 Enterprise Drive
    Diamond Springs
    California 95619
    
    
        ........  Henry
From: marc@hemlock.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Subject: Re: Converters FROM Postscript
Originator: marc@hemlock
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:26:15 CDT


In article <g92b8843.7.714133100@giraffe.ru.ac.za>, g92b8843@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR PA BAISE) writes:
> Hi
> 
> Ther are many converters that transform many a format to PS. Are there any 
> converters that convert PS to another format, say DVI? The reason I ask is 
> that some of us do not have access to a PS printer, just a poor old kyocera.
> 
> Many thanks
> - Paul
> 
> 
> Paul Baise                          E-Mail : G92b8843@giraffe.ru.ac.za
> Department Of Computer Science      Tel : +27-461-22023 (ext 292)
> Rhodes University                   Fax : +27-461-25049
> P.O. Box 94
> Grahamstown, 6140
> South Africa
>  

GhostScript will `convert' from PostScript to a number of other `formats',
e.g. HPGL, Epson FX-80, X11, VGA, etc...

[M][a][r][c]
From: delahunt@adobe.com (Jim DeLaHunt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Is cleartomark good PS programming style?
Summary: sure it is.
Keywords: style
Date: 21 Aug 92 03:33:48 GMT
Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript
Distribution: comp
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated


Rob Bradlee writes:

> Is the cleartomark a legitimate way to make sure you've left the 
> stack in good shape or a cheap trick that absolves you from the 
> effort of thinking?

The way I would phrase the question is: is it a legitimate and useful
technique to pass a variable number of parameters on the operand stack, 
delimited with a 'mark'?  In my opinion, yes, absolutely.  Sometimes
you really want a variable number of arguments, sometimes you really do
want to "throw out all remaining arguments", and mark ... cleartomark
provides a great way to do that.

Here's how I've used it:  my software reads feature invocation code from a
PPD (PostScript Printer Description) file.  I enclose the invocation code
in mark ... cleartomark and a stopped context, so that if my file goes to
a printer that doesn't support that feature, the feature invocation will
turn into a no-op.

For instance, here's how my software invokes letter-size paper:
	[ {
	statusdict /lettertray get exec
	} stopped cleartomark

Is it a cheap trick?  Well, any legitimate technique can also be used as
a cheap trick that absolves one from thinking.  "0 setlinewidth" comes to
mind.

	--Jim DeLaHunt, Developer Support, Adobe Systems Incorporated	
delahunt@adobe.com	...!{apple,decwrl}!adobe!delahunt      +1-415-962-3790
In programming style my word is law.  I work for Developer Support. :-)
From: bradlee@cg-atla.UUCP (Rob Bradlee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Is cleartomark good PS programming style?
Keywords: style
Date: 10 Aug 92 14:37:22 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division, Wilmington, Mass. USA



Here is PostScript coding style question for all you gurus:  Let's say you
have a PS procedure that does some like this

/utility_procedure {
	mark
	%
	% imagine PS code here to do some useful things and load up the stack
	%
	% Now imagine some PS code that does a test based on some of the 
	% stack info to see if it's worth processing the rest of the data
	% on the stack
	{
	% test was true.  Process the rest of the items on the stack.
	}
	{
	% test failed. cleanup.
	cleartomark
	}  ifelse
} def


Is the cleartomark a legitimate way to make sure you've left the stack in good
shape or a cheap trick that absolves you from the effort of thinking?
Your opinions, please.
-- 
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Agfa Corporation.                      ...!{decvax}!cg-atla!bradlee
200 Ballardvale St.                        bradlee@cg-atla.agfa.com
Wilmington, Mass. 01887 
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: 880139h@dragon.acadiau.ca (Rob Hutten)
Subject: giftops - compiling under MS-DOG
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:11:17 GMT

Howdy.  Has anyone managed to get giftops.c to compile
correctly under DOS?  I'm using turbo C and I tried
all memory models from tiny to huge, but I can't get
the program to work.  I get sucessful compilations for all
memory models except tiny and huge, but the small model .exe
bombs at runtime (garbled output and `error 0:') and I get
`out of memory' type erros with the medium, compact and large
models.  I was using a tiny (8K) test .gif, so memory problems
shouldn't occur.

Archie turned up no giftops.exe, but I would think that someone out
there has ported this handy program to DOS...

Thanks in advance for any help.
-Rob

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: block@ief.itg.ti.com (Bucky Block)
Subject: Need a hpgl to ps converter
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:13:16 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: IEF Development, Texas Instruments Inc., Plano Texas.
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at Texas Instruments Inc.
              The opinions expressed within are those of the user and not
              necessarily those of Texas Instruments.

I need a hpgl to postscript converter, does anybody know
of one?

Thanks,


-- 

Bucky Block                         |     block@ief.itg.ti.com
IEF Development                     |     TIMSG: BLOC
Texas Instruments, Plano Texas      |     (214) 575-4732
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: qarl@wuecl.wustl.edu (Karl Stiefvater)
Subject: Multiple %%EOF's??
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:00:18 GMT

I have a dilemma which I'm sure the PostScript community can answer for me...

I have a program (dvips) which generates PS code containing multiple "%%EOF"
statments. (It does so when including EPS figures.)

I have a printer filter (cap's papif) which looks for the first "%%EOF" as
the end of input, and stops there.

Who's at fault?

- Karl

Xref: sparky comp.lang.postscript:4311 comp.sys.mac.apps:13334
From: teplitz@optilink.UUCP (Ron Teplitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Save Mac Word doc to Postscript file?
Keywords: Word 4.0, Postscript file
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:26:46 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

I remember reading somewhere that Word could save a document to a postscript
file, but I don't remember where or how to make it do this. Any hints
out there?  Thanks in advance. 
-- 
Ron Teplitz - Tech Writer/Cellist
UUCP:   uunet!optilink!teplitz	Internet: teplitz@optilink.com 
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so". D. Adams
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
Subject: Re: Where can I get Palatino font ?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 20:39:20 GMT

In article <59484@mimsy.umd.edu> dong@umiacs.umd.edu (Dong Chen) writes:
>Could somebody tell me where I can get the Palatino-(Roman,Italic,Bold,...)
>fonts ?

The additional 22 Adobe Type I fonts (including Palatino) are included
in the Impressario software product, available from SGI.  You need
only purchase the client-side of Impressario if all you want is the 22
fonts.  

This is the only product from SGI which includes the additional 22
Type I fonts.  

The marketing contact is Ed Schreyer, eds@sgi.com.

Cheers,

David Story                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
story@bent.wpd.sgi.com				Mountain View, California
From: jbitar@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Convert a Canon LBP-8IIR into a Postscript printer?!
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:38:01 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services


   I've been trying to sell my Canon LBP 8IIR in order to buy a Postscript
printer instead.  However, I was told that I could buy a logic board that would
'convert' my Canon LBP 8IIR into a Postscript printer.  I was also told that 
Xante and LaserMaster sell such boards, however he didn't tell me anything 
about the prices of these boards or the phone numbers of companies that carry 
those boards.  

   Does anybody out there have any idea about those logic boards and of any 
companies that sell them...  :)

   I don't know if this question concerns a lot people, so if it is no trouble
I would appreciate it if you respond to me directly and I'll archive the 
answers for the interested... :)

   Thanks in advance..

Joe.
email:  jbitar@uoft02.utoledo.edu
or
        jbitar@stardent.chem.utoledo.edu
From: rickc@pogo.wv.tek.com (Rick Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: WANTED : PostScript Specifications
Date: 13 Aug 92 00:25:19 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.

In article <1992Aug11.131215.202314@uctvax.uct.ac.za> drvsim01@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Simon Driver) writes:

>I am looking for postcript specifications as I have to hand in a project that
>requires the output in postcript.

If you are interested in Level I PostScript, you want _PostScript_Language_
_Reference_Manual_ (the "Red Book").  If you are interested in Level II
PostScript, you want the second edition (the "Red & White Book").  The are
both published by Addison Wesley.

BTW, PostScript is a programing language.  You are looking at something similar
to a C++ spec..  The "Red & White book is 760 pages.  
-- 
Rick Clements (RickC@pogo.WV.TEK.COM)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: sbirkett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Birkett)
Subject: Seebold Trout etc
Reply-To: sbirkett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 11:25:18 +0000

I'd like to see if my system can handle some of those Postscript benchmark 
files that magazines often use when reviewing hadware. 
 
I'm thinking of the Seebold Trout in particular. Are these benchmark files 
available for download by ftp? 
 
Stuart......
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript coding style question
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:45:17 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com
Distribution: comp

Rob Bradlee writes
> Is the cleartomark a legitimate way to make sure you've left the stack in  
good
> shape or a cheap trick that absolves you from the effort of thinking?

I think it's a cheap trick, myself :-)

The only justified use of it is if you include arbitrary PostScript
that you do not know or trust (as in an EPS file). If you wrote the
code, you should clean up after yourself.  If you write things
properly, there shouldn't be anything on the stack anyway when you
get to the "cleartomark".

If you really aren't sure what's on the stack, how do you know there
isn't another "mark" (equivalent to a "[", by the way) on the stack
somewhere?

Anyway, I'd avoid using it if I were you.

One of the things that I sometimes do with particularly gnarly bits
of code is to force an error where your "cleartomark" is and see the
contents of the stack, count them, analyze them, then look back at
the code to get rid of anything that shouldn't be there.  For example,
people often use "stringwidth" but forget to pop the unused "Y" value,
and it's still sitting there later.

Just my $.02

--
 Glenn Reid        		NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
 RightBrain Software		415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
 Palo Alto, California
From: jt@systech.com (John Tassi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PS Lang Help!!!!
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:43:15 GMT
Organization: Systech Corp., San Diego, CA


I need a postscript function that will duplicate the C function below.  It's
an I/O test, what it does is read the standard input for an increasing
sequence of characters.  If a character is out of sequence count it.  Valid
characters are 0x20 to 0x7f, and it wraps around from 0x7f to 0x20.  That
is, look for the sequence 20, 21, 22, 23, ..., 7e, 7f, 20, 21.....

#include <stdio.h>

#define LOW_CHAR 0x20
#define HIGH_CHAR 0x7f

main()
{
    int received = 0, index = LOW_CHAR;
    unsigned char ch;
    int failed = 0;

    while( (ch = getchar()) != EOF){
        received++;
        if(ch != index){
            failed++;

            /*
             *  Assume we dropped a char or two and sync up again.
             */

            if( (ch >= LOW_CHAR) && (ch <= HIGH_CHAR) )
                index = ch;
        }
        if(++index > HIGH_CHAR)
            index = LOW_CHAR;
    }

    printf("Received %d bad chars out of a total of %d\n", failed, received);
}


Thanks in advance ...
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From: jxr@gamma.ma.adfa.oz.au ( John  Roumeliotis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Drivers for GS on 486/MSDOS
Keywords: Drivers for GS
Date: 19 Aug 92 02:29:18 GMT
Organization: Maths Dept. ADFA

I previously posted an article asking for help with 
	PS -> Inkjet drivers.
Some subscribers mentioned Freedom of Press and Ghostscript. I wish to 
thank them for their help.

I am now thinking of purchasing a Canon BJ10ex or a HP Deskjet500. I've got
GS, and it works fine when you ask it to output to the screen, but I haven't
got a clue on how to get it to output to any of the printers mentioned above.

C or C++ is not my forte. I don't have access to a C compiler anyway, so are
there any executable drivers out there that can perform PS -> Bubble/Inkjet
on my 486 under Dos 5.0?

Any response would be greatly appreciated
John.

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: cornpop@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Speaker for the Dead)
Subject: ps to ascii converter
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:15:09 GMT

I need a PostScript tp ASCII Text converter.  Please reply in E-Mail.

Thank you in advance,
Dan Lieberman
cornpop@glia.biostr.washington.edu
From: games@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: chaos game: Sierpinski Surprise
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:52:22 GMT

> In article <1992Aug20.124923.18308@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>
> barry@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Barry G. Adams) writes:
>  
>>Here is an interesting postscript program which generates the
>>Sierpinski gasket using the chaos game.
>  
Could someone send this to me, I don't seem to see the original post
anywhere.

		Thanx.

(Or even just repost it?)

		John.
From: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: looking for RTF->PostScript
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 04:39:13 GMT
Keywords: RTF PostScript

In article <375mrlg.mslade@netcom.com> mslade@netcom.com (Michael Slade) writes:
> I'm looking for c code that parses MicroSoft's Rich Text Format
> and produces reasonable PostScript.
> A close second would be a good parser for Rich Text Format.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


Microsoft Word does a reasonable job of that.  :-)
 

Seriously, RTF and PostScript are completely different animals.  RTF
describes a document as a linear stream of text with formatting and
layout commands interspersed.  PostScript describes a two-dimensional
finished page, but has no concept of text as a stream, or line
wrapping, or that things proabbly shouldn't print on top of each other
or anything like that.

To convert RTF to PostScript you really would have to effectively
rewrite MS Word yourself -- much easier to just use AppleEvents to
reuse the existing tool than to do it all yourself...

-- Bruce
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: larry@ducktales.med.ge.com (Larry Landwehr)
Subject: ps to ascii
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 14:12:54 GMT

Are there any programs that will extract the ascii contents of a
postscript file? I'm trying to build a library of internet docs.
Having everyone print out a 300 page doc just to see what it
contains is not acceptable. Any help is welcome.
From: waltervj@coos.dartmouth.edu (Walter V. Jeffries)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Iron-On Code
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:40:21 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH


A number of people wrote with questions about the iron-on transfer toner
and as others may have similar questions I thought  I would post the answers
here:

Q: Is there any residual toner when you change cartridges?
A: No, you can start printing in the new color immediately.

Q: Can you do more than one color per page?
A: Yes, I have done as many as 8 colors on a page.  Just swap colors of
toner cartridges in your laser printer and run the page back through.

Q: Can you get good registration?
A: Yes.  There are a number of tricks which we cover in our newsletter
about getting good registration when printing with the colors of transfer
toner or with our color print toners.  The biggest issues are:
  1. Keep your machine clean.
  2. Feed the paper in the same way every time.
  3. Dry the paper out before printing on it so it doesn't shrink.
I typically get about 80% to 90% of the pages registered within 1/32 of an inch I recently did a job of 30 copies with four passes (CMYK) and by following all
of my rules I got 100% perfectly registered.  Unusual but it does happen.

Q: Can you do process color and color mixing?
A: Yes!  This is where it gets really fun.  Because it is a dye process the
colors mix.  We have Cyan (our Blue), Magenta, Yellow, and Black as four of
our 12 colors.  I do CMYK (process) color work all the time.  I use Adobe
Illustrator and Adobe PhotoShop for most of the projects.

Q: What software do you use?
A: Illustrator and PhotoShop but any drawing or wordprocessor will do.  What
you need software wise depends on what your are going to try to do.  If you are
going to do photographs you'll need a image editing program like Adobe Photo-
Shop or PhotoStyler.

Q: Can you get these cartridges in other countries?
A: Yes.  We sell both in the USA and in other countries.

Q: How can I get more information?
A: Send me your postal address and I'll send you a sample copy of our 
newsletter, The Flash.  You may also want to get our book, Flash Compendium,
of the best of the back issues of The Flash.  It has a whole section about
using the Transfer Toners.

Hope that helps,

-Walter

BlackLightning, Riddle Pond Road, West Topsham, VT 05086 USA
From: vchan@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Victor Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PS codes for FH 3.1 fills
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 00:38:57 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

I'm checking around to see if anyone has postscript codes for interesting 
Custom Fills in Freehand 3.0 for Windows.  Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: pjl@sparc10.cs.uiuc.edu (Paul Lucas)
Subject: Re: Save Mac Word doc to Postscript file?
Keywords: Word 4.0, Postscript file
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:31:20 GMT

In <11789@optilink.UUCP> teplitz@optilink.UUCP (Ron Teplitz) writes:

>I remember reading somewhere that Word could save a document to a postscript
>file, but I don't remember where or how to make it do this. Any hints
>out there?  Thanks in advance. 

*****>	*ANY* application can print to a PostScript file.  Using System 7,
	select print; in the diallog box, click the PostScript radio
	button.  It can also be done under System 6, but it's a pain; you
	have to hit command-something, 'K' I think, *immediately* after
	clicking OK.
-- 
	- Paul J. Lucas				University of Illinois	
	  AT&T Bell Laboratories		at Urbana-Champaign
	  Naperville, IL			pjl@cs.uiuc.edu