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From: lohmaier@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Lutz M. Lohmaier)
Subject: PS to METAFONT converter
Summary: MetaFont
Keywords: PostScript
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: ?
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 10:43:22 GMT

Hi Folks,

is there anybody interested in a PostScript to (Meta-)Font converter?
I wrote a device driver for GhostScript-2.3 (NOT yet -2.4!) that
outputs *.mf source and --- if desired --- a complete TeX-font in a
resolution of your choice. Each PostScript page is put into one letter
(limiting the number of *.ps images per font to, say, 60 when starting
with character 'A'... and using 7 bits(?)). The images (==letters) can
be incorporated into TeX documents.

The code is written for UNIX, means: I didn't worry about the MS-
DOS-specific 64K segmentation stuff. However, some of the PC dvi tools
cannot handle large characters (e.g. size of a page) anyway...
It runs fine on a SS-1+ clone. 

Since I don't understand GhostScript's argument parsing mechanism,
some of the vital parameters are set to defaults and must be changed
by the means of environment vars. A wrapping shell script may do
that for you (I should find one --- somewhere...).

lohmaier@cs.tu-berlin.de
From: stimpson@selway.umt.edu (Danny Stimpson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: HP LaserJet ----> Postscript
Keywords: HP LaserJet,conversion
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:42:48 GMT
Organization: University of Montana

I have a PC file that contains HP LaserJet III, or I if I choose, HP LaserJet
Plus control codes.  I would like to convert these files to postscript,
since I don't have access to these kind of printers except to a postscript one.
Does anyone know of anything out there to convert this stuff?

stimpson@selway.umt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
Subject: need simple PS routine
Reply-To: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
Organization: LaserMaster Corporation
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 22:30:42 GMT

Ooooo, do I feel dumb.

I have need for a short PS routine that I actually posted myself in this 
group not too long ago. [HD crashed, and backup went too]  I'm not an 
experienced PS programmer, and so can't just bang out a new one; I figure 
that the net may be able to provide it sooner than I can rewrite it myself. :>

It printed the word "DRAFT" in grey letters at an angle across the page.

I would appreciate it if someone would post or e-mail it to me.

Thanks.

chaz


..must think...bubble pipe will relax me and I think...
Xref: sparky comp.lang.postscript:4584 comp.graphics:9452
From: hlp@sisd.kodak.com (Harry Parker RIPSYS)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: OPI (Open Prepress Environment)
Summary: A good reference article: Seybold Report on Pub. Sys. V20,N17 5/29/91
Keywords: OPI Open Prepress Interface
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:34:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: sisd.1992Sep4.153447.10919
Organization: Printer Products Division Eastman Kodak

Everything I know about the Open Prepress Interface comes from
an article I read last year in the _Seybold Report on Publishing
Systems_, Vol. 20, No. 17, ISSN: 0736-7260, May 29, 1991.

It is simply a convention for embedding instructions into PostScript 
files to tell the output device where and how to merge various text
and graphics components of a page.  The components themselves are
PS files that may have been composed at different times on various 
computers.  

It has its roots in Aldus's PageMaker.  Its main trick is to let
users manipulate low resolution images on their screens, for
editing, cropping, color correction, etc., and then reference
the full resolution image, with all the modifications, to the
printer.  Its designed for high resolution image setters and so
won't help folks who want to stick to 300 dpi as much.

Contact Aldus for more info.  


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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: talley@mcc.com (Jim Talley)
Subject: Re: EPS files
Followup-To: alt.graphics.pixutils
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
	<5694@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:03:23 GMT


> In article <5694@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley) writes:
> 
>    [ most of article omitted.]
> 
>    Another thing, EPS files can only have one page in them. Are you sure
>    it is EPS? Look at the top of the file for 
> 
>    %!PS-Adobe-n.n EPSF-n.n
> 
>    where n are numbers.


Is it really true that EPS files should only have one page in them?
(I'm not challenging you... I really don't know.)  MS Windows 3.1
allows you to output anything as an EPS file (complete with above
header) -- i.e., it oftentimes creates a multi-page "EPS" file.

I have had much difficulty trying to get MS Windows Postscript output
to print on Imagen and DEC printers.  I basically gave up on the
Imagens when I managed to find a workable solution with the DEC LN03
(connected to a VAX/VMS workstation).  Interestingly, the key element
in making that work was that the file has to have been created with
the 'output EPS' option on in the Windows Postscript driver -- most of
the other combinations of options seemed irrelevant.

				Jim
				talley@mcc.com
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From: donaldsn@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Liz Donaldson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Postscript to image
Date: 27 Aug 92 11:42:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: kodak.1992Aug27.114244.28235
Distribution: usa
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY


Sorry if this question has been posted before but
does anyone know of a non graphical user interface 
program that will convert a Postscript file
to some type of imagefile or array in memory?

Thanks,
Liz 
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: wrp@pslsrv1.gvl.unisys.com (Bill Pringle)
Subject: Re: printing even and odd pages
Organization: Paramax Systems, Ivyland, PA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:40:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.232251.27154@newsgate.sps.mot.com> reed@prism.sps.mot.com (Tim Reed) writes:
>Is ther a simple script or program available to print just the even  
>or odd pages of a postscript document? This is for printing 2 sided  
>documents. Any help would be appreciated.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I posted a C program called pspages a week or so ago.  It allows you to
specify particular pages as well as even or odd (logical or physical)

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: ckw@Cookie.secapl.com (Kirk Woerner)
Subject: Re: PostScript error handler
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:39:28 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Security APL, Inc.

In article <b_cn#5.qualtrak@netcom.com> jb@QualTrak.COM writes:
>
>I used to have an error handler I could download to a PostScript printer
>that would print the error message (and possibly a stack dump) when the
>interpreter encountered an error condition.
>
>I seem to have misplaced it and would like to have it back again.
>
>Can someone tell me where it may be had?  I tried mailing a help message
>to ps-file-server@adobe.com but 24 hours have passed and no answer.  I'm
>the impatient sort donchano...  So if someone can emailto me or post on
>the net an ftp location or, better yet, the program.  I'll be forever in
>your debt.
>
I also would be very interested in this.  If someone has the program (and
its not too long) a post would be great.
Thanks
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Xref: sparky comp.lang.postscript:4572 comp.graphics:9428
From: ssircar@canon.com (Subrata Sircar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.graphics
Subject: OPI (Open Prepress Environment)
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:07:12 GMT
Reply-To: ssircar@canon.com (Subrata Sircar)
Organization: SPAMIT
Originator: news@nimaster

Apologies in advance if this is not the right newsgroup(s); please tell me
where this query would be more appropriate.

I'm looking for any information about the OPI (Open Prepress Environment),
reputedly from Aldus, supposedly consisting of an extension to PostScript
comments and some other stuff.  (As you can tell, I don't know much about it).

Does Aldus have a fileserver or an e-mail address I could contact them at for
further information?

Please email to me, and I'll summarize if this actually turns out to be of
interest.  Not only is this a fairly constrained topic, I don't normally get
these newsgroups at my site.


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From: pat@genethon.fr (Patricia Rodriguez-Tome)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: zoom in ghostview1.3
Keywords: ghostview1.3 ghostscript2.5 zoom
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:46:52 GMT
Organization: Genethon -- CEPHB Human Polymorphism Study Center, Paris, France
Originator: pat@genethon.genethon.fr


Hello,
I recently installed on a Sparc2, SunOS4.1.2,
the version 2.5 of ghostscript and 1.3 of ghostview,
compiled with Sun C compiler and linked with X11R5.
Everything works fine but the zoom : I get the zoom
window but nothing inside.
I had before ghostcript2.4 and ghostview1.1, and the
zoom worked perfectly on the same files.

Thanks in advance for any help

Pat R.Tome


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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Ignoring Lines
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:30:18 GMT
Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon

[]

	"Is there any way to tell Adobe PostScript Level II (or Level
	I) that the next 10 lines are comments WITHOUT adding a comment
	character in front of those next 10 lines?"

If those lines are not within a procedure body, you can do something like:

	/buffer 256 string def
	10 { currentfile buffer readline pop pop } bind repeat

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: dockhorn@fzi.de (Patrick Dockhorn)
Subject: Map of the World in PostScript
Keywords: map world
Reply-To: dockhorn@fzi.de
Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:36:27 GMT

There exists a package of geographic maps of the world.
They can be found by querying archie for 'worldmap'
(for example on nz20.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de in /pub/msdos/worldmap) -
the only disadvantage is that they're not PostScript.
I'm sure that there have already been solutions to this;
nevertheless I wrote a small C program (< 10kB source) that
converts such a map into a conforming PostScript file including
options for scaling. The program has been successfully tested on
a SPARCstation running SunOS 4.1.1 using gcc 1.40.3 to compile
but should be easy to port to other platforms.
If you're interested, send me a mail message.
If I receive many requests, I'll post it.

	Patsch

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: bruno@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Bruno Hall)
Subject: Making downloaded fonts permanent -- how?
Organization: McGill University Broom Closet
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 17:50:50 GMT


Hello!

I've read the faq, which describes methods for getting rid of "sticky"
fonts.  I'm having the opposite problem; when the PFA file is sent to
the printer, the first ^D that comes along nukes the downloaded font.

==> How do you make a type 1 font resilient to ^Ds?

Bruno
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET (Kevin Cole; Washington DC)
Subject: FAQ?  Previewing on-screen at minimal cost.
Organization: Gallaudet Research Institute
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:23:14 GMT

Greetings from the void,

On my desk, I have a Gateway 2000 486/33MHz, with a CrystalScan 1024 NI 
monitor, running DOS 5.0, with Windows 3.1. It's connected via a regular
old-fashioned async serial card to a VAX (i.e. no fancy networking... yet). 

At home, I have an Amiga 3000/25Mhz running AmigaDOS 2.04 from disk.  It's got 
the 1950 MultiSynch monitor, and a 2400 baud modem.

I'm cheap.  What can I get that will allow me to preview on-screen my
hand-written PostScript on either system, so that I don't become more of a
fire-hazard than I already am?  How much would it cost in terms of $$$ and disk 
space?

I'm a real PostScript novice.  I'm playing around with the Blue book but that's 
all I have at the moment.  And I don't know diddly about Windows either.  I've 
seen stuff go flying by about GhostScript, and Display PostScript, but since
I am new at this, I'm not sure if those are the things I want to pursue, or if 
I need gobs and gobs of other software in order to run either of these.

Thanx for any info.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: reed@prism.sps.mot.com (Tim Reed)
Subject: printing even and odd pages
Originator: root@mogate.sps.mot.com
Organization: SPS
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:22:51 GMT

Is ther a simple script or program available to print just the even  
or odd pages of a postscript document? This is for printing 2 sided  
documents. Any help would be appreciated.

--
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Tim Reed
reed@prism.sps.mot.com
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From: steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Question about "nested" Type-1 fonts
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:15:48 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Limited, Cambridge, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

A question for Type-1 gurus.  (My apologies if this topic has been
discussed recently, but I've not been keeping up with this newsgroup
recently.)

I maintain a piece of software that converts Type 1 fonts into Acorn's
proprietary font format.  Because it does not incorporate a full
PostScript interpreter (or anything remotely close!) it relies on
fonts conforming to the simplified and predictable form described in
Chapter 10 of the "Adobe Type 1 Font Format" book.  Recently one of
our developers showed me a font which fails to convert.

The font is a "Bold Oblique" font, and on examining it I found that it
has been implemented as a cut-down font with no CharStrings of its
own.  Instead the whole "Bold" version of the font has been physically
included in the file, with code to avoid defining it if the printer
already knows about it.

There is some code at the bottom that copies (by reference) the
"nested" font's CharStrings across into the font being defined.

Now that I am aware of this technique I want to update my program to
cope with it.  I have some questions though:-

(1) Does Adobe condone this sort of thing, given the strictures in
Chapter 10 of the Black Book?

(2) Can ATM cope with this sort of font?  If not, then presumably they
will gradually disappear and be replaced by ones that it can cope
with.  If ATM cannot handle this technique, then I won't either.

(3) Does anyone ever nest fonts MULTIPLY?  If so, this will complicate
my code, but on the other hand I can't see why you'd want to do this.

Thanks in advance for any info!

-- Steve
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From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Colour Matching problem.
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:51:32 GMT
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.

In article <12702@hardy.rl.ac.uk> rjm@inf.rl.ac.uk writes:

>I am  attempting    to   do   colour    matching  between  a monitor and
>a PostScript Level 1 + Colour extensions printer.

>My colour matching has produced a mapping as follows:-

>Cyan -> Matched Cyan
>Magenta -> Matched Magenta
>Yellow -> Matched Yellow
>Black -> Matched Black

>This  all  sounds    fine,   but  implementing    this  in PostScript is
>a problem. I understand that colour  transfer   functions   can  be  used
>to map  colours  into  device  colours.  This  would work fine for  the 
>Cyan, Magenta  and Yellow,   but the Black  depends on the values for C, 
>M and Y.

>Is it  possible    to   get  hold  of the  values  for C, M and Y inside
>the transfer function for Black ?

In reverse order:

Calculating black is easy. K = n * min (C, M, Y) where n is between 0
and 1

Reduce each of C, M, Y by K.

Matching screen secondaries to device primaries is easy and gives poor
results. You do not give quite enough information for me to see what
exactly your matching program is doing. However, let us assume that
you can generate a cyan (say) that matches on screen and printer. Let
us also say you can generate a yellow that matches.

You seem to be assuming that this is a three point mapping problem. It
isn't. Mixing those two colours on the screen will give a colour that
could be precisely predicted from the CIE chromaticities of the two
colours. Mixing the two colours in the printer gives a very different
colour; it is not additive and not linear.

The only sure way to get a match is to print samples of C,M,Y (and K if
you are keen) varying each one from 0 to 1 so you get a sample of the
colours. Using 10 samples for each gives 1000 data points for CMY or
10000 for CMYK. Then you measure the chromaticity and luminance of
each sample, and put this data into a three (or four) dimensional
inverted lookup table.

Given a monitor colour (RGB), the monitor chromaticities, white point
and gamma, you can convert this to a CIE specification, then
interpolate from your table to predict how much of each ink to use.

This is of course rather a lot of work. Level 2 PostScript does all
this for you. I suggest you consider using it if this is an option for
your printer. If not, hassle the manufacturers :)

I have of course simplified this argument to fit a reasonable space;
nonetheless if anyone feels I am off target here feel free to mail me.
This only represents *my* understanding.

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk (Paul Moore)
Subject: ISO Latin1 encoding vector
Organization: Bull HN UK
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 12:25:13 GMT

A level 1 question.
Is the builtin ISOLatin1 encoding vector universally supported? The red
book (old) implies that there is just the standard encoding vector but
my LW II NTX will accept refernces to the latin1 vector. Is this always there
and just an oversight in the red book? or is it only implemented in some
printers?


Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: mike@uunet!ctbilbo (Mike Willey)
Subject: TI microLaser buffer overflow
Organization: Communications Technology Systems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:15:30 GMT
Summary: My TI micoLaser looses data when sending big postscript files
Keywords: problems SVR4 TI


I am operating with Unix SVR4 from Consensys using my parallel adaptor
to connect to a TI microLaser.  My problem is that if I send a lot of
postscript output to the printer ( 20 to 30 % larger than the buffer
size) my printer drops some of the characters that are sent.  I have
a friend that has the newer microLaser and uses it with MS-DOS :-(
and he has the same problem.  I have three questions for netland:

1. Has anybody had this problem besides us?

2. Does anyone have a fix?

3. Does anyone _know_ why this happens so I can fix it myself?

Answers to any of the above questions will be appriciated greatly.

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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Defining a font vs. defining a procedure
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:00:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.070502@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>With a font, the star character gets converted to a bitmap only once.
>That's most of the work.  Then, each time you show the character, the bits
>just get blopped into the page bitmap.

One downside of this is if you're rendering to a low resolution device (like
a video screen) you get the same defects for every iteration, and you'll get
regular positioning errors that look like a wave going down the page.

Like everything else, there are a bunch of tradeoffs.
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From: kesich@acf3.NYU.EDU (John Kesich,321wwh,998-3047,)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: stroked Courier?
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:44:00 GMT
Organization: New York University

One of my users finds the Courier font too light in relation to Courier-Bold.

After rummaging through the PostScript Reference Manual I concluded that
the way to fix this would be to create a modified Courier font by copying
Courier, changing the copy to a stroked font and adjusting the stroke weight
to taste.  So far my efforts to do this have failed miserably.

Does anyone have the ps code for creating a stroked Courier font?
Or, if there is a better way to solve this problem, please let me know.

Thanks.