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From: ygor@3d2c.jhuapl.edu (Daniel E. White  (F2C))
Subject: Re: I can put 2 pages on a sheet, but how to blow up a page onto 4 sheets?
Organization: Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:41:16 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.082540.22748@cv.ruu.nl>, ger@cv.ruu.nl (Ger Timmens) writes:
|> In <PRZEMEK.93Jan7123332@rrdstrad.nist.gov> przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:
|> 
|> >Hello!
|> >
|> >I would like to be able to blow up a complicated drawing by printing
|> >four quadrants of it on separate letter-size sheets and pasting them
|> >together. Does anyone have a simple way of doing it? 
|> >
|> >I have several programs that do the reverse operation (put two pages
|> >of text on a single sheet), but they don't seem to be able to do the
|> >reverse operation; the FAQ did not seem to contain this either.  I
|> >expect that this may as simple as appending four simple coordinate
|> >transformation before four copies of the original file, but I am not a
|> >Postscript expert and before I write a filter to do it myself I thought
|> >I'd ask if more knowledgeable folks did it before me.
|> 
|> Look for the program 'poster', use archie or xarchie to locate it. If
|> you can't find it I can mail you the sources (about 10K).
|> 
|> From the source code:
|> 
|> #
|> #  poster.c  -  a generic PS scaling program
|> #  This program outputs a PostScript page to a given size,
|> #  create tiles if necessary. Each tile will be 7.5" by 10" with crop marks.
|> #
|> 
|> I've made several 'door-posters' using poster.
|> 

  If it is that small, post it.  An archie run on "archie -s poster" 
produces a large and confusing output (at least from my machine)

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: denl@netcom.com (Dennis Allen Lee)
Subject: MAC vs. PC Postscript
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:45:30 GMT

Currently we generate postscript files for our manuals using Pagemaker
on the Mac. When we had mentioned to the service bureau that we might be 
moving to a PC platform, the print shop person told us that postscript files
generated on a PC are not as reliable as those generated on a Mac. Is
there any truth to this?

Any input would be much appreciated.

Dennis Lee (denl@netcom.com)

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: Mirror Images
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:53:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.192218.23383@news2.cis.umn.edu>
	saranen@staff.tc.umn.edu (David Saranen) writes:
>Is there a way to print out a mirror image of a postscript file?

Have you tried inserting

	[-1 0 0 1 612 0] concat

as the first action on the page?

					-=EPS=-
From: simmons@duncan.utkcs (Paul T Simmons ( Doc ))
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Color/Radial test pattern
Date: 4 Jan 93 09:23:43
Organization: My own private world :-)
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu


	Help!  I need to find a test pattern that will produce something
along the order of a color wheel, radial lines and an embedded picture
that is easily distinguishable (by eye) as being correct color wise.
	If you can point me in theiright direction or provide me with the
necessary file, much thanks shall be heaped upon you.
Paul
simmons@cs.utk.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: bau@cs.cornell.edu (David Bau)
Subject: Re: How do I make a really big procedure?
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:12:52 GMT

koreth@spud.Hyperion.COM (Steven Grimm) writes:

>Unfortunately, on one of the printers I'm using, I get a stack overflow
>when I try to define this procedure (which can end up being fairly large
>if the image is complex).  This happens whether I call the procedure or
>not.

Instead of expanding the stack, might it be possible to break up the
procedure in to subprocedures?  This can be done quite mechanically;
you don't even have to assign procedure names.

Instead of writing:

    /proc {2 3 4 add mul} bind def

you can write

    /procarray [{2 3}{4 add}{mul}] def
    /proc {procarray {exec} forall} bind def

or you can go even further (and get the bind to do all the work once)

    /procarray [[{2 3}{4 add}{mul}] {bind} forall] def
    /proc {procarray {exec} forall} bind def

This strategy is not capable of breaking up code within {} blocks
without modification.

Anybody have any better ideas?

David Bau
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat)
Subject: archie can find programs [WAS: where are plot2fig and pic2fig?]
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:47:44 GMT


> where are plot2fig and pic2fig?

Try using archie, which is a great program that can find most anything.

% archie pic2fig

Host reseq.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de

    Location: /informatik.public/comp/typesetting/tex/unix_tex/tex82/TeXgraphics
/transfig
      DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x        512  Mar  9 1989  pic2fig

Host dsrbg2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de

    Location: /pub/tex/unix_tex/tex82/TeXgraphics/transfig
      DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x        512  Mar  9 1989  pic2fig

Host toklab.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp

    Location: /tex/JTEX-DIST/tex2.95/tex82/TeXgraphics/transfig
      DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x        512  Dec 20 1988  pic2fig


> How can I find a program?
> 
>     To find a program, try using an ``archie'' server. Archie will
>     figure out which FTP sites have the program that you are looking
>     for. Please try archie before asking people for the program.
> 
>     I would be happy to answer questions about where to get programs.
>     Just send me email. If you find a good ftp site for these programs,
>     please let me know.
> 
>     To use archie, just type ``archie'' or ``xarchie''. If you don't
>     have that program, then you can telnet to one of the following
>     addresses and type ``archie'' as the username. To get help type
>     ``help''.
> 
> 
>       archie.rutgers.edu   128.6.18.15     (Rutgers University)
>       archie.unl.edu       129.93.1.14     (University of Nebraska in Lincoln)
>       archie.sura.net      128.167.254.179 (SURAnet archie server)
>       archie.ans.net       147.225.1.2     (ANS archie server)
>       archie.au            139.130.4.6     (Australian server)
>       archie.funet.fi      128.214.6.100   (European server in Finland)
>       archie.doc.ic.ac.uk  146.169.11.3    (UK/England server)
>       archie.cs.huji.ac.il 132.65.6.15     (Israel server)
>       archie.wide.ad.jp    133.4.3.6       (Japanese server)
> 
>     If you don't have telnet, send email to archie at any of the above
>     sites with the subject ``help''.

Archie doesn't find anything for plot2fig.

-Jon

p.s. I usually answer questions like this with personal mail. I
thought the information about archie might be interesting in general, though.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: cslee@pds.nchu.edu.tw (Lee Chee Siong)
Subject: Wanted: Printscreen to .PS file or .PS printer
Organization: NCHU Computer Center
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 11:49:10 GMT

   I always need to print the screen and include in my report. Could someone
send me any information that can print the screen to .ps file and also .ps 
printer.
   Thanks for any suggestion.




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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,news.answers
From: scotto@ipars.cts.com (Scott O'Connell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: LaserJet 4
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:23:20 GMT
Organization: Spectrum Data Services - Carlsbad, CA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

I thought I'd post this here since I frequent this group and have seen 
others talk about the LaserJet 4.

I recently upgraded from a LaserJet III with the HP PostScript cartridge
to a brand new LaserJet 4.  I initially had some problems getting the 
PS to work since I was trying to use my HP PS cartridge from my LJIII. 
Anyway, after installing the PS SIMM option and 4MB of memory I was ready 
to start using the printer.

Within the first 15 pages through the printer I had a paper jam, 41.3 to
be exact.  After opening the back of the printer I found that the first
page started and about 2 inches later there was a second page coming 
through at the same time.  I dismissed this first jam as a fluke and
starting trying ppst, pcal, Word Perfect, etc.

To make a long story short I have been having a terrible time with the 
paper on this printer.  I've tried other paper and it doesn't seem to 
make much if any difference.  I've never had a jam when using the MP
tray so I suspect it's a problem with the drastic turns the paper makes
when leaving the bottom tray.  I should mention that I might have had
one or two paper jams with my LJIII.

I've heard from friends that this is a known problem with the LJ4.  I
called HP and asked what it could be and got the standard "it must be
the paper or your environment" answer.  I could always return the 
printer for another but don't know if that's the problem.

Now, just to justify the existance of this message in this newsgroup,
the printer is really nice.  600dpi, autoswitching PS/PCL (with no
drivers like the LJIII) and *much* faster PS.  PPST Index is as
follows:  PPST-G 12.5, PPST-R 26.1, PPST-M 6.2 for an overall of 12.0.

Are there any comments on this printer?

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,news.answers
From: hansel@convex.com (Kevin Hansel)
Subject: 'job wait timeout' problem...
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:28:05 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

Hello,

I am having a job wait timeout problem with a couple of PostScript
printers that have serial and AppleTalk interfaces that are in use
simultaneously (Apple LaserWriter IIf and QMS 815).  

Our site has several printers that are accessable to UNIX users via 
their serial ports and smultaneously accessable to Macs via their AppleTalk 
ports.  Normally, the job wait timeout on the printer is the default 30 
seconds.  However, sometimes after printing several mac and UNIX jobs, the 
printer suddenly assumes a job wait timeout time of 300 seconds!  As a result, 
the printer locks onto the serial port for 5 minutes.  UNIX users can
continue to print jobs, but Mac users won't be able to print until
5 minutes *after* the last UNIX job printed.  Does anyone out there
have any thoughts on why the job wait timeout is getting set to 300 
seconds?  It doesn't appear to be manufacturer dependent since both
the Apple and QMS printers behave the same way.

The really frustrating part of this problem is that it doesn't occur
all the time.  It's somewhat intermittent.  I've written a little
postscript program which I can lpr to the printer from the UNIX side
to reset the timeout to 30 seconds:


%!PS-Adobe-2.0 ExitServer
%%Title: Set Time outs
%%EndComments

  serverdict begin 0 exitserver
statusdict begin
 0 60 30 setdefaulttimeouts
end
%EOF


I've had to basically set up a crontab file to fire this code off
about every 5 minutes to ensure that the timeout gets reset to 30
seconds throughout the day.  But this is just a band-aid fix until
I can figure out how to fix the problem permanently.  

I looked at the Postscript header a mac generates and found the following
piece of code:


statusdict begin/waittimeout where{pop waittimeout 300 
lt{statusdict/waittimeout 300 put}if}if end


At first glance, it looks as if the mac might be the culprit, but if the code 
above is effecting the change, why doesn't it change the timeout every 
time the mac prints?  Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance!

Kevin Hansel
hansel@convex.com
From: bill@banana.fedex.com (bill daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Just the FAQs please (requesting FAQ file)
Summary: FAQ needed
Keywords: FAQ needed
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:34:59 GMT
Organization: Federal Express Corp.

Would someone please send me a copy of the FAQ for comp.lang.postscript?
I have only recently tuned in to this group and there is no FAQ on our
system (that I can find) for comp.lang.postcript.

bill
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: s29@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (R.Mills)
Subject: GHOSTSCRIPT compile with no X11
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:39:58 GMT
Keywords: ghostscript postscript x11

I am interested in using ghostscript ONLY as an engine to convert
any postscript/ascii text to G3 Fax format.  I would just like to
use it as a simple converter.  Do I really need X11 to compile
ghostscript for my purposes?

Can I compile ghostscript wiithout X11 libs and if so... how.

Please only reply to:
don@scsmo1.attmail.com


Because I do not read net news often.

Thanx....

BTW, if you know of any other applications that will convert
ascii and/or postscript  to G3 format, please let me know.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: snead@mdd.comm.mot.com (Gregory Snead)
Subject: HELP: dictfull error
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:38:27 GMT

Here is the scenario.  We have drawing package that generates
HPGL.  We used a filter provided by Frame to generate an EPSI
file from the HPGL file generated by the drawing package (the
filter is called hpgltoepsi).  We then included that EPSI file
into a FrameMaker document.

When we print out the file with FrameMaker on a Sun to a
LaserWriter Plus, it prints the document.  If we print out the
file with FrameMaker on a Mac to a LaserWriter II, it generates
the error:

	ERROR: dictfull
	OFFENDING COMMAND: def

	STACK:

	{}
	/path_right

Frame Technologies, Adobe and some PostScript experts couldn't
explain why this happened.  One provided a workaround.  I need
to know why this happens and a possible solution, since a large
amount of documents will be generated this way and printed from
a Mac.  If anyone has any ideas please help!

=================================================================
"It  can  take  real cunning  to  outsmart a stupid  machine, but
what a satisfation!" -- Piers Anthony  [ snead@mdd.comm.mot.com ]
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: dsg@impmh.uucp (Dave Gordon)
Subject: Re: recycle logos in postscript
Organization: Integrated Micro Products Ltd
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:18:32 GMT

In <199226.4412.10939@dosgate> "gordon torrie" <gordon.torrie@canrem.com> writes:

>bill@leeweyr.sccsi.com (Bill Lee) writes:
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the logos! I have been wanting one for some
>> time now.
>
>I'll add my thanks to John for posting the collection of recyle
>logo drawing postscript routines. However,...
>
>> (O.k., This is a nit.)
>>
>> However, have you noticed that most of them are not quite
>> right?
>
>Yes I have. I consider this more than a nit. The logos drawn by
>these routines are wrong and quite unusable in my work.
>
>> Of the three "arrows" in the logo, two are curving from back-to-
>> front while the third (lower right) is from front-to-back.
>
>I agree that two should curve back-to-front and that the third
>should curve front-to-back, but I believe it is the lower left
>arrow that is the third arrow. I'm using a pamphlet published by
>the Gov. of Canada as a guide to the proper use of the recycle
>logos (there is more than one) for my reference.
>
>The routines presented by John as recycle2 and recycle7 appear to
>be identical. Here is my "corrected" version of them.

Bill took his 'standard' from a can of Diet Coke, according to his
earlier post; but I have in front of me a (UK) can of Diet Coke, and
the 'recycle' logo is SYMMETRICAL!  All three arrows go from 'behind'
to 'in front' - just like the one printed by John's recycle2.ps file.
A quick check around the office shows that ALL the products here
bearing a 'recycle' logo - drinks bottles, toner cartridges, toilet
roll wrapper, C++ modules (:-) - use this same symmetrical logo.

So this could be a matter of national standards not matching; perhaps
some other people around the world could tell us what their 'recycle'
logo looks like, for comparison.

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: keie@cs.vu.nl (EG Keizer)
Subject: Re: number of pages
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:48:49 GMT

bo@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bo Slaughter) writes:

>I need a program (piece of code, or whatever) that can read in a
>postscript document and print out the number of pages that WOULD 
>be printed if it were sent to the printer.

The only way to get an indication of the number of pages to be printed
is by using another PostScript interpreter. It will never be more then
an indication. There are two reasons for this:
1. Several applications produce printer dependent code. A malicious user
   might prefix his/her PostScript file with code to check whether the
   PostScript is really executed on the printer itself, and if so set
   the #copies to 100. Sending that PostScript to another interpreter
   would result in an indication that is a hundred times too low.
2. If the system administrator happens to be standing next to the printer
   and notices something odd, he/she may abort the print job. This external
   factor may greatly reduce the number of pages printed.

-- 
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Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatika		fax: +31 20 642 7705
Vrije Universiteit				e-mail: keie@cs.vu.nl
De Boelelaan 1081A, 1081 HV  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From: spatel@cs.tamu.edu (Samir K Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: How to get SIZE (width & height) of postscript image ??
Date: 12 Jan 1993 06:27:05 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Distribution: y
NNTP-Posting-Host: solar.tamu.edu

  Hi Postscript Gurus,

  I have one of the most basic question about postscript image file.
  I need to convert postscript image to some other format (gif).
  I don't know the size of postscript image ( width & height ).
  Also size is not mentioned in postscript file that I can get from
  postscript file by viewing the file.

  What I need is some kind of commnad, converter or viewing software
  for postscript which can give me the size og postscript image so
  that I can conver to some other format using pbmplus command psidtopgm
  and from pgm to ppm to gif.

  So How can I find SIZE ( width and height ) of  postscript image without
  actually looking  the postscript file, because not all the postscript
  files mention width and height in the code.

  Thanks

  Samir (spatel@cs.tamu.edu)


Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: s29@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (R.Mills)
Subject: Xaw wigets
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:47:43 GMT

Where can I get the Xaw widgets for sunos 4.1.2??

Don Ingli
don@scsmo1.attmail.com
From: helmut@helmut.munich.sgi.com (Helmut Schiller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: statusdict: Tumble and Duplex with HPLaser IIID
Keywords: statusdict
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:17:57 GMT
Reply-To: helmut@munich.sgi.com
Organization: Training Silicon Graphics GmbH Germany Munich

I am a PS beginner and have a HP Laser Jet IIID connected to a Workstation
(Indigo). My PS-Manual tells about statusdict and some operators settumble
and setduplex to configure the printer. But how is the syntax?? Please, can
anyone help!

Thanks for any informationen!
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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Just the FAQs please (requesting FAQ file)
Keywords: FAQ needed
Date: 11 Jan 93 06:20:07 GMT
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada

In article <1993Jan9.161936.24926@banana.fedex.com> bill@banana.fedex.com (bill daniels) writes:
>bill@banana.fedex.com (bill daniels) writes:

>>Would someone please send me a copy of the FAQ for comp.lang.postscript?

>Wow! What service!  The FAQs postings just reached my site!  Talk about
>coincidence.  Now I will go away for a few days to mull over the FAQs
>but based upon my initial scanning of the info, I will probably be back
>looking for a command to embed in the postscript file that will make my
>HP IIIsi w/ duplex option print in duplex mode.

How about:

    statusdict /settumble known {
	statusdict begin
	    true setduplexmode
	    false settumble
	end
    } if

Change the "false settumble" to "true settumble" for short-side binding.

The extra gunge is to make it transparent on printers that don't support
it.
-- 
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Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
Subject: Re: where can I get the  Usenet Guide to PostScript  ?
Originator: lewart@rsm1.physics.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
Organization: UIUC Physics Department
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:59:10 GMT

In article <JGM.93Jan11111218> jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat) writes:

> You can find the documentation on wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript.
> As the FAQ says, the Usenet Guide to PostScript is incomplete.  Right
> now you'll find just a chapter about transformations in PostScript.

Actually wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/comp.lang.postscript.  It is a
beautiful document.

Daniel Lewart
d-lewart@uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript