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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Subject: Laser Printer Toner substitute list...
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 10:01:41 EDT

From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Toner Flavors for popular laser printers...
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Keywords: 






I am looking for a substitute list of toner for popular toner cartridges.

I have used, with great success, Minolta 350,350z (I think) toner to
refill Cannon EP cartridges, like for a Apple Laserwriter, plus, HP Laserjet.
I have gotten some of the new style cartridge printers (EPS & EPL) and
am looking for the same -correct- replacement toner for these cartridges.
Anybody with horror stories or information, please reply in any manner.


Cartridge    Popular printers                                        Toner
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  EP        Apple Laserwriter, Plus,  Cannon LBP-8, LBP-8D     Minolta 350/350Z
            HP Laserjet 2686, plus, 500 plus, 2686TA, 1686TA  (I better check)
            QMS, Big Kiss, II, 800, 800II, 800+                 (Others ?)

  EPS       Apple Laserwriter IInt, ntx, Personal Laserwriter
            Declaser 2100, 2200,   Nec Silentwriter ii 260, 290
            HP Laserjet IID, II, III, IIID
            QMS, Lasergrafix 810, 820, PS 810, 820
            Star 811,  Cannon LBP-811R, 811T, LBP-8111

  EPL       Brother HL-4,  Cannon LBP-4, LBP-TX, P110
            HP  IIP, IIIP, IIP plus,   QMS PS-410

  EPSi      HP Laserjet IIISi,  Cannon LBP-RX, SX, TX






This is a approximate list of printers, I've taken it from a supplier catalog,
and may have made typos.  I see at lest one printer is shown as using 2 dif-
ferent cartridges, and assume this is intentional, and correct, and the
better cartridge is used for better quality output.  
Email or followups gladly accepted....
thanks
al

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: jckelly@netcom.com (John Kelly)
Subject: need advice on mixing postscript with text in a form
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 19:32:41 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: need advice on mixing postscript with text in a form
Keywords: postscript text report forms

I am using an HP-III with a pacificpage postscript cartridge.  I have a form
that I designed on a PC using Aldus Pagemaker and I want to "merge" text from
a database into the form and print it out. I'm running ISC 3.0 UNIX. I'm no 
postscript wizards so any suggestions or comments will be appreciated. I will
summarize if there is enough interest.  Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: taft@adobe.com (Ed Taft)
Subject: Re: PS L2 compression behavior
Keywords: PostScript compression rle pathological
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:52:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.143846.3667@Princeton.EDU>
dmlaur@ernie.Princeton.EDU (David M. Laur) writes:

>Am I correct in computing the worst case expansion of an input file
>under RunLengthEncode followed by ASCII85Encode to be
>
>   (worst output size) = (input data size) (4/3) (5/4)
>
>i.e.  for data of the form "abbabbabbabb ..." the RLE algorithm
>requires two bytes for each 'a' (right?)

No. There is nothing that requires you to encode repeated characters
as a repetition. You can encode the entire input as literal text,
producing an expansion of 128/127. This is the worst case. Use the
repetition encoding only when there is an advantage in doing so.

>Secondly, is there something wonderfully magic about the number 85
>that makes the encoding algorithm Very Easy(tm)?

I'm not aware of any tricks that apply specifically to multiplying and
dividing by 85. The choice of 85 as a base derives from it being the
smallest integer n such than n^5 >= 2^32.
-- 
Ed Taft      taft@adobe.com      ...decwrl!adobe!taft
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: jon@afs.com (Jonathan Hendry)
Subject: Re: Postscript as a REAL programming language.
Distribution: USA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:35:40 GMT

In article <MORGAN.92Sep4154422@xerox.jts.com> morgan@jts.com (Morgan Jones )  
writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.100724.1@max.u.washington.edu> games@max.u.washington.edu  
writes:
>
>   Pistscript is sure cool.  It just hit me though that (not for production 
>   purposes) postscript could be abused into doing like regular programs.
>
>   Along the same lines, does anyone have any examp-les of postscript code  
that
>   are aimed at doing things other than laying out a page?
>
>			   John.
>
>Take a look at Sun's NeWS environment.  The majority of our
>application is written in PostScript (30K+ lines of code).  Just
>think, object oriented PostScript, complete with meta classes. 
>
>Neat, huh?
>-- 
>Morgan Jones    -    morgan@jts.com
>JTS Computer Systems Ltd., Toronto, Canada

The NeXT allows for the inclusion of postscript inside of C code. Also, there  
is a mechanism called PSwraps which makes a postscript routine into a  
c-callable function. Theoretically, an app could be written which consists of a  
large amount of PS wrapped and called as C functions. Also, any postscript  
program is essentially executable from the Workspace if you add .eps to the  
end.

There is a small postscript program around which grabs the pointer, turns it  
into a spinning circle, and bounces it around the screen going "bonk" when it  
hits the sides of the screen.
--
Jonathan Hendry  Anderson Financial Systems
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From: ray@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Ray Allis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript as a REAL programming language.
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:12:36 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle

games@max.u.washington.edu writes:

>Pistscript is sure cool.  It just hit me though that (not for production 
>purposes) postscript could be abused into doing like regular programs.

>Like if you were stupid, and worked real hard at the code, you might even
>get a postscript printer to boot DOS?  or is there a showstopper?
>Obviously, you have an input device (attach your keyboard to the
>serial port, via your favorite terminal emulater), and you can spit
>messages out the serial port, right?, and even if you cant, you still have
>a printer for feedback to the user...

>I know that this is a wierd thing to contemplate, and I for one never intend to
>even come close to trying such a thing, but I just want to know if it might
>be possible...

>Along the same lines, does anyone have any examp-les of postscript code that
>are aimed at doing things other than laying out a page?

>			John.

Sun's Network Extendable Window System (NeWS) is an object-oriented
multi-threaded client-server window management system that allows you,
the user, to write whole applications in Postscript and C, C++, whatever,
mix and match as you like.  There's a GUI developer (GUIDE) and a user
toolkit (TNT).  There are several demos included with SunOS, and if you
can ftp there's HyperLook and SimCity on uunet.  SimCity in Postscript
is neat!

Ray Allis
ray@atc.boeing.com

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: dmlaur@ernie.Princeton.EDU (David M. Laur)
Subject: PS L2 compression behavior
Summary: what is worst case expansion?
Originator: dmlaur@ernie.Princeton.EDU
Keywords: PostScript compression rle pathological
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:38:46 GMT


I've written a pbm+ to eps filter which allows optional
PostScript Level 2 image encoding. Since the thing is now
functional, I'm looking for ways to make it faster, more
correct, and generally cooler. 

I have one specific question about data expansion resulting
from 'compressed' encoding of worst-case input files: am I correct
in computing the worst case expansion of an input file under
RunLengthEncode followed by ASCII85Encode to be

   (worst output size) = (input data size) (4/3) (5/4)


i.e.  for data of the form "abbabbabbabb ..." the RLE algorithm
requires two bytes for each 'a' (right?), and Ascii85 is a 5:4
encoding.


Secondly, is there something wonderfully magic about the number 85
that makes the encoding algorithm Very Easy(tm)?  So far, I've just
been doing brute force integer divide/remainders by the various powers
of 85.

Thanks for any insight!

--

David Laur                                It is absurd to divide people
Princeton University                      into good and bad; people are
Interactive Computer Graphics Lab         either charming or tedious.
dmlaur@princeton.edu                                - Oscar Wilde
From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Color Postscript Question
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:15:00 GMT
Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon

[]

	"The problem arises in that there are only about 12 colors in
	the screen image, so I'm creating a five Meg file when I could
	actually be creating a much smaller file ... The target printer
	is a Tektronics Phaser III that supports Postscript Level II."

The datasrc input to the "image" operator can be an arbitrary
PostScript procedure.  You could write a procedure which reads paletted
color, translates to the desired values, and hands them off.

Since it's level II, you could also compress the whole file.  See
section 3.13 of the PostScript Language Reference Manual, second
edition.

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: hdeshma@eos.ncsu.edu (HARSHAVARDHAN  DESHMANE)
Subject: Rotate figure
Followup-To: hdeshma@eos.ncsu.edu
Organization: NCSU Project Eos
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:50:56 GMT

Hi all,
 Firstly I have looked for a FAQ and couldn't find one. 
I need a command/comment such that the figure generated by another
program(Sigview from MCNC) can be rotated by 90 degrees. For some 
reason, the figure is saved by Sigview, in a rotated way..so essentially
I am just trying to straigthen it out, before including it in LaTeX.

There are commands like
-90 rotate
in the file,
I deleted these, but this only prevented the rotation of labels, (which
now overwrote one another)..

I need the waveforms to be rotated as well..
Ideally, there must be some one command to rotate everything in the page(?)
I hope someone can help me..If it might help, I can post/email the file
to any knowledgeable netter.

Thanks for your help

-Harsh Deshmane

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From: U12570@uicvm.uic.edu (u12570@uicvm.uic.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.fonts,comp.text.tex
Subject: Generating AFM files
Date: 10 Sep 92 20:31:01 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

Are there any utilities (public domain or commercial) to generate
Adobe Font Metric files from home-grown (but well-behaved) Type 3
PostScript fonts? Please provide details. FTPable would be great.

One of our users created a couple of barcode/posnet fonts.
We can download them to the printers or printers' disks and use
it as any other Postscript font. Now, we need the AFM metrics so
that they can be used by various document composition software.

We would prefer to be able to run the program(s) on MS-DOS, but
we do have access to IBM VM/CMS, Unix and MACs as well.
Come to think of it, would Coreldraw 2.01 on the PC generate an
AFM file or another metric format file that could then be converted
to AFM?

Thanks for your help!

--- Ed Garay
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: jeff@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Jeff White)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: zoom in ghostview1.3
Keywords: ghostview1.3 ghostscript2.5 zoom
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:33:19 GMT
Organization: Drexel University, ECE Department, Philadelphia, PA

In article <1992Sep3.184652@genethon.fr> pat@genethon.fr (Patricia Rodriguez-Tome) writes:
>
>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.

  We are running ghostview1.1 on a DECstation 5000/240.  Zooming worked
fine with ghostscript2.4.1.  When I upgraded to gs2.5 last week, we also
lost the zoom feature.  I'd say that is probably the culprit.


					Jeff White
					jeff@cbis.ece.drexel.edu
From: sgoldste@usc.edu (Fogbound Child)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Color Postscript Question
Date: 14 Sep 1992 11:06:45 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

Forgive me if this is a FAQ or related to one. I wasn't able to find
a reference anywhere.

I've got this 1024 x 864 screen dump that I'm converting into color
Postscript. I've been successful in translating it into a printable file.

The problem arises in that there are only about 12 colors in the screen
image, so I'm creating a five Meg file when I could actually be creating
a much smaller file. I'm sure that the processing and printing would be
significantly faster if I could use four bits/pixel.

So is there some easy way to do "paletted" or mapped color? I've been
unsuccessful using single-nybble color in the image map, but maybe that's
a result of not knowing the right way to do it. Alternatively, is there
some way to get around the ascii expansion of the bitmap?

The target printer is a Tektronics Phaser III that supports Postscript
Level II.

Thanks!
-- 
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: No Zapf-Dingbats in my Apple LaserWriter IIf ?
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:34:51 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Sep8.153655.17176@jet.uk> djs@jet.uk (David J Stevenson) writes:
<(Sorry if .lang implies this is the wrong group, feel free to redirect
<any follow-ups).
<
<Using an Apple LaserWriter IIf, any attempts to print Dingbats result in
<Courier.  The power-up page says that the printer contains 35 fonts, and
<therefore, I assumed, Zapf-Dingbats (ref comp.fonts FAQ).
<
<Any ideas why I am not getting the correct font?   Postscript test program
<follows:
<%%
<0 setlinecap 0 setlinejoin
<0 0 translate 1 1 scale
<%
</Zapf-Dingbats findfont 12 scalefont setfont
<249 329 moveto
<0 setgray
<(Dingbats) show
<showpage

It is ZapfDingbats, not Zapf-Dingbats.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: janus@epx.cis.umn.edu ()
Subject: How to access extra PS characters
Keywords: Icelandic, eth, thorn
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:32:53 GMT

I've asked this before, but perhaps not in this newsgroup.
I am looking for the simplest way to print the Icelandic
characters eth and thorn (upper and lower cases) in a text/

I have a HP LJHIIIp, with postscript level 2 cartridge.  I
use a MacII ci running system 7.0.1.  Back with level 1 cartridge
and system 6 I could change some of the definitions in the
system's laser prep file (using ResEd), but I don't see the same
files in the current setup.  Can I feed a couple of lines redefining
say the y diersis to eth?  I have postscript escape font if I need
to send messages to PS itself.

Thanks for all the help!

Louis Janus
(Sometimes part of the Scandinavian Dept,
U of Minnesota)
janus@epx.cis.umn.edu
From: emilio@acupain.UUCP (Elizabeth Milio)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: HELP with EPS needed
Keywords: Need to display eps files to screen
Date: 9 Sep 92 13:16:10 GMT
Reply-To: emilio@accurate.com.UUCP (Elizabeth Milio)
Organization: ACCURATE Information Systems, Eatontown, NJ

Hi netters

I'm new to postscript...what I need is a package (commercial or other)
which will allow eps files to be displayed to a terminal.

Actually, we need to be able to display to PC and Mac.  There may be an
occassion in the future to do this with Sun stations.

Do some packages exist?

Thank you for any help or information you can send.  Please e-mail your replies
From: alastair@bugle.cetia.fr (Alastair Adamson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Rounding error?!?!
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:31:27 GMT
Reply-To: alastair@bugle.cetia.fr (Alastair Adamson)
Organization: CETIA, France

In article <1992Sep8.145018.27114@cetia.fr>, alastair@bugle.cetia.fr (Alastair Adamson) writes:
|> I wrote the following trivial program to test my disbelief.
|> It simply prints the difference between the "y" value used in
|> a "moveto" and the "y" value returned by "currentpoint".
|> I am amazed by the magnitude of the resulting value. Can this
|> simply be put down to rounding error? Does anyone have a better
|> explanation. The test was done on a LaserWriter II NTX.

Sorry, I forgot to give the result of the test!
The ouptut I got was 6.10352e-5 which I feel is a long
way off zero.

	Alastair Adamson
	alastair@cetia.fr
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PS to bitmap
From: coxon@chem.canterbury.ac.nz (Edward Coxon)
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:56:52 +1200
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


Does anyone know of a way to convert a .ps file into any form of  bitmap for editing?
I have tried ghostscript and its pstopbm filter, but to no avail.

Any help on the matter would be much appreciated, and I'd appreciate it if you email me at chem193@csc.canterbury.ac.nz as I don't always read this group.

Thanx in advance

Mark Baker
:w

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: kca@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Van Oast)
Subject: can you force duplex of single-side docs on HPIIIsi???
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 09:13:59 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

we have, on our network, a hewlett-packard IIIsi printer, which
has the ability to print on both sides of a piece of paper.  this
works great and saves lots of trees and all, when we use multi-
page documents.  HOWEVER, i am wondering if there is a way to 
print TWO pages that are TWO documents on opposite sides of the
same piece of paper -- sorta like getting the printer to know to
wait for the next job and put that on the backside of what it 
just printed.

i am posting to this group, because i am assuming(?) the (or, one
of the) solution might be printing both documents to disk (a 
postscript file), combining the file into one, and then removing
(or adding?) some line of postscript code telling to keep on same
page.  of course this is a miserable way to do it, so i am hoping 
someone might have a better (if not automatic) way of doing it.

incidently, the documents are generated with canvas on a mac, so
if canvas has some sort of multi-page printing capability, could
someone please point me to this, and PLEASE no RTFM cuz if anyone
has seen the manual for canvas, they might guess most people dont
have that much time on their hands.... ha

thanks much....  email or post here   -jon  kca@engin.umich.edu
From: "jeff zeitlin" <jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: ps as real prog lang
Date: 12 Sep 92 19:48:56 EST
Reply-To: "jeff zeitlin" <jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Executive Networks Information

     Subject: (was: Postscript as a REAL programming language.)

GA::>Pistscript is sure cool.  It just hit me though that (not for production
  ::>purposes) postscript could be abused into doing like regular programs.

  IMO, it's not as farfetched as it might initially seem.  Plenty of
  code has been written in a language called FORTH, and when I looked
  at PostScript and FORTH side-by-side, I was amazed at the
  similarity!  Obviously, PS as implemented is mre for page layout
  than general programming, but it should still be possible to do some
  non-page-layout stuff just like you would in FORTH.

  Just a random thought...

  J/
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From: mark@mullara.met.unimelb.edu.au (Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,aus.tex,comp.text.tex
Subject: Help with dvips, metafont and tex.
Date: 8 Sep 92 05:23:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript
Organization: Melbourne University, Meteorology Department

METAFONT, TEX and DVIPS users,

I believe that I have successfully installed TeX3.14 (including metafont
and all the generic packages) on a sun4c sparcII. I have also installed
dvips but unfortunately for me it cannot find the appropriate *pk or
make it with the MakeTeXPK script. I have run the debugger but all seems
well (apart from not being able to find pk fonts) and there is no error
such as MakeTeXPK cannot be found. I have tried all the obvious fixes
including those mentioned in all of the manuals (dvips, mf makefiles etc)
but no luck. It seems to be a problem with dvips not invoking the MakeTeXPK 
script but I have checked the dvips makefile and everything looks
appropriate.

The only thing I am worried about is that when I installed metafont
the README said that the modes.mf files would be put into the  MFINPUTS
directroy during step 5. This didn't happen and I put it in manually
with the correct localmodes line set.

Has anybody else had similar problems and if so can you mail me at:

collier@minke.iasos.utas.edu.au

Much appreciated,
Mark.
From: marks@sdd.comsat.com (Mark A. Schleifer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Newcommer needs help!
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:40:39 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SDD, COMSAT Labs, Clarksburg, MD

Help!

I do not know PostScript and I need to write a driver for a graphics package.  I
need to know where to start.  I have not seen a FAQ for this news group.  If one
exists, it would probably answer most of my questions.  Please send it to me.
I mainly would like to know where I can get a good PostScript programming
manual.  If you have any suggestions, I would appreciate them.  Thank you for
your help.

Mike Stennett
COMSAT Laboratories SDD/SAS
mike@sdd.comsat.com