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From: cslee@pds.nchu.edu.tw (Lee Chee Siong)
Subject: Wanted: Redirect LPT1 to .PS file
Organization: NCHU Computer Center
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:06:12 GMT

   Is there any package that can redirect lpt1 to a .PS format file?
   Any suggestion is appreciate.


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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: swispl@solomon.technet.sg (SW International)
Subject: Break down drawing larger than pagesize ?
Organization: TECHNET, Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 15:55:33 GMT

Has anyone ever done a program (be it postscript or a tool creating
postscript), that can draw on an (infinitely large) virtual page, then
break it down into an acceptable size (say the printer's default),
print all pages with special markings on the borders on how to paste
it back together, and maybe print one more page showing an overview
of the whole mess?

Would that be possible in PS? Could this be installe in a way that another
postscript program, unaware of it, finds a big virtual page to draw on,
with this gem then doing the translation?

Just thinking, would sure be nice...

Mathias
PS: I don't know much postscript myself, so tell me if this is just
a dream...
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Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 1992 11:39:34 MST
From: Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PS Development tools for Macs and PCs
 <1992Dec14.200636.1107@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> <BzA0B7.CC5@world.std.com>

Also, if you're stuck with a Mac, you might want to consider getting
A/UX (which comes with Transcript) and Ghostscript. Not that I'm
reccomending this above a NeXT, but, if you've already got a Mac, the
$600 or whatever it is for A/UX is certainly cheaper than a new NeXT,
and you get something which isn't half bad.

b&
From: veloso@husc9.harvard.edu (Manuel Veloso)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PS Development tools for Macs and PCs
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:36:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Dec14.113700.18473
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University
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X-XXDate: Mon, 14 Dec 92 11:42:37 GMT

In article <ByzzMx.EuB@world.std.com> Peter F Davis, pd@world.std.com
writes:
>I'm trying to decide between a Mac and a PC as a development platform for
>advanced PostScript techniques.  I'm trying to find out which platform
has
>better tools for this kind of job.  I know there used to be something
>called Lasertalk for debugging with a LaserWriter on Macs.  Is it still
>available?  What printers can be used?  Other info?
>
>I'd also really like something like a PostScript previewer for doing
>on-screen debugging, etc.  I know Freedom-of-Press has a screen preview
>capability, but it's horrendously slow.  I also know Ghostscript is
>available for PCs, but I don't know how fast or reliable it is, or how
>well it emulates Adobe PostScript.  Comments?
>
>In general, I'd appreciate any feedback on development tools for these
two
>platforms.
>
>Thanks very much.
>-pd

Well, on the Mac there's:

LaserTalk, which is _still_ in 1.0 release after all these years, can do 
any laserwriter that's hooked up via the printer port (ie: 
appletalk-able). It only supports level 1, tho.

Also, you can grab T-Script basic (or Lite), which I think still has an 
executive window with a nice quick previewer (executive window means that 
there's a console directly into TScript, like the executive mode in an 
normal laserwriter).

Manuel
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: mslade@netcom.com (Michael Slade)
Subject: what is ftp address for Adobe?
Keywords: postscript, ftp, adobe
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:11:37 GMT

I've seen some mentinon of an ftp server at Adobe
but I missed the address.  Could someone please 
let me know what it is?
Thank you,
Michael Slade, Datavision Technologies
From: churchh@ut-emx.uucp (Henry Churchyard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How to make fixed width fonts with non-fixed width fonts
Summary: cwshow procedure -- Peter da Silva
Keywords: postscript
Date: 13 Dec 92 04:43:20 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

In article <1992Dec8.203206.17023@frmug.fr.mugnet.org>, serguei@frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Serge Weinstock) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know how to make a fixed width font with a 
> non-fixed width font ?

  Yes, but the result will not generally be pretty.  Here's a
procedure from Peter da Silva that will horizontally compress (scale)
a character which is wider than a requested fixed-width box, and will
horizontally center narrower characters within the box:

/cwshow % string width --                  From Peter da Silva, thanks!
{ 4 dict begin
 /width exch def
 /buffer ( ) def
 { buffer exch 0 exch put
   width buffer stringwidth pop sub 2 div
   dup -0.05 lt { pop gsave
      currentpoint translate
      width buffer stringwidth pop div 0.95 mul 1 scale
      buffer show
      grestore width 0 rmoveto }
 { dup 0 rmoveto buffer show 0 rmoveto }
 ifelse } forall  end } def

   I would use this procedure by defining a procedure _myshow_ which
will be used in place of _show_ for the fonts we are monospacifying.
If you keep track of the current pointsize in a variable _ptsize_,
then a good definition of _myshow_ is:

/myshow {ptsize .6 mul cwshow} def

   Here using .6 guarantees width compatibility with Courier fonts of
the same pointsize; feel free to experiment with different values...
--
         --Henry Churchyard     churchh@emx.cc.utexas.edu

Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: rzuvo@rzu.unizh.ch ()
Subject: Questar Starburst
Organization: Computer Centre, University of Zurich
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:26:09 GMT

Does anybody know whether Starburst is an Adobe RIP
or a clone?
We consider to install it as RIP
for a Canon Laser Copier.

Peter Vollenweider, University of Zurich
From: veloso@husc9.harvard.edu (Manuel Veloso)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: ehandler.ps
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:49:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Dec15.104953.18513
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
X-XXMessage-ID: <A7536A2AC3011817@humcr3.harvard.edu>
X-XXDate: Tue, 15 Dec 92 10:55:38 GMT

In article <4560@vidiot.UUCP> Vidiot, brown@vidiot.UUCP writes:
>I screwed up and lost an enhanced ehandler.ps program.  It was posted to
this
>newsgroup in the recent past.
>
>I would appreciate it if someone would send me a copy.
>

If you've got access to it, check out the 'new & improved' error handler
that lives in the (also) 'new & improved' LaserWriter driver on Apple's
developer disc.

Manuel
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.windows.x
From: asente@adobe.com (A Usenet Pal)
Subject: Re: Using X11R5 with Display PostScript
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:18:22 GMT

In article <flint.722842793@marsh> flint@cs.curtin.edu.au (Daniel Baldoni) writes:
>G'day folks.
>
>We've got about 15 DECstations (5000/25's and 5000/20's) on which we've
>installed X11R5.  However, one of our users has become involved in a rather
>large project which requires the use of Display PostScript.
>
>So, the question is "How can I make these machines running X11R5 capable of
>using Display PostScript?".  If at all possible, we'd like to avoid going back
>to using DECwindows.

The only way to use the Display PostScript extension on DECstations is to
use the DECwindows server.  However, you should be able to use the client
part of the X11R5 distribution with the DECwindows server without any
problems.  I do it all the time.  I'm not aware of anything the X11R5 server
that is not in the DECwindows server.

>This same query applies to our various SPARC's (running combinations of
>4.1.[123] and OpenWindows [23].0).  How can we make use of the OpenWindows
>NeWS facility while still using an X11R5 server.

Again, you can't use NeWS with the X11R5 server.  However, you can get
an X11R5 server with the Display PostScript extension from ICS.

__   -paul asente
\/     asente@adobe.com   ...decwrl!adobe!asente   moo-bear@cs.stanford.edu

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only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that
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From: klg0582@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken-Huang Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Need postscript library callable from C
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:25:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bz9HvB.74w
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


  Is there any public domain postscript library that is callable from
C?  Specifically, routines like psopen(), psline(), pstext(), ...,
psclose(), that can be called to generate a postscript file.  Any
lead would be apprecaited.

Ken H. Lin
khlin@uiwpls.ece.uiuc.edu
From: suraj@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (U.L.J.S.R Perera)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Postscript viewer for PCs
Date: 15 Dec 1992 15:59:17 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au


Are there are any Postscript file viewer available for IBM compatibles?
Any kind sole please E-mail me a pointer to such software (if it is available).

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From: HAC041@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Konrad Hinsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Greek italic
Date: 14 Dec 92 09:54:28 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

Is there a 'standard' way to produce greek italic letters for mathematical
formulas? The font "Symbol" only has non-italic characters.

Konrad Hinsen (hac041@zam001.zam.kfa-juelich.de)
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Printing images much faster!
Date: 16 Dec 92 04:50:52 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Dec14.161405.19667@midway.uchicago.edu> epc1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
<
<
<After converting some X images to Postscript, I sent the Postscript files
<to the laser printer.  Each images took more than 10 minutes to print!
<
<As I would like to do this consistently, is there anything I can do
<to speed the process of printing these images?  Can I convert
<to some other format which would speed up the printing of these images?
<Will PS2 do anything for me?  Can I get a faster printer?
<
<What can I do???   I would like to get the printing time to under 2 minutes.

You are missing some important information...

What kind of PostScript printer is it and how is it attached to the computer?

If it is attached via the serial port, you are limited by the serial port
speed.  At 9600 baud, that is a possible maximum of 960 characters a second.
Pretty damn slow.  Changing to 38400 baud will improve that by a factor of 4.
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From: titus@dallas.sil.org
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.os.vms
Subject: ALL-IN-1 PostScript table for DEC 2200-series lasers?
Date: 20 Dec 92 19:25:56 GMT
Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas Center

Does anyone out there have a printer table for DEC's
ALL-IN-1 that provides access to *ALL* of the fonts on the
PostScript card for DEC 2200 series laser printers?  The
"standard" PS table leaves out several fonts, including
Zapf Chancery and Zapf Dingbats, both of which are right
nice fonts.

If you know of such a table, please let me know via E-mail
(titus@dallas.sil.org).  If I hear of one, I will post the
info to both of these groups.  Thanks in advance.

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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How to test for Color Postscript
Date: 16 Dec 92 06:21:31 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Dec15.005220.1891@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> pgreen@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Philip Green) writes:
<Is there a string that I can test for that will occur in 
<Color Postscript but not Black & White?
<I would like to verify that the file is a color postscript
<file before sending it to the printer.

I assume that you are doing the test to make sure that color is actually
going to be produced, so that resources are not going to be wasted.

Unfortunately, unless you actually print the file, you aren't going to know.
Here is why I believe this is so...

Many programs, like FrameMaker can produce color documents.  But, the user
has the option to only do B&W.  But, the procedures that FrameMaker would
use for printing color are still in the PostScript prologue.  Because of that,
grepping for color procedures will only show that the file has them, not that
they are being used.

On the other side of the fence, I use the color procedure "setrgbcolor" in
my document (the Star Trek: The Next Generation Program Guide), but it is set
for gray.  It is there in case I get access to a color printer and want to
try some color printouts.  The groff source is set for future enhancement.
In this case, sending my outputs to your color printer will produce B&W.

Without actually displaying the PostScript file with a color previewer,
you can't tell that it will, or won't, produce color.

Let me be proven otherwise.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.graphics,alt.graphics.pixutils
From: albert@morticia.cnns.unt.edu (Gerald Albert)
Subject: ps -> pict
Keywords: postscript,pict,translation,cheap
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:04:13 GMT

Dear Readers,
	Do any of you know how to translate a postscript document
into PICT format.  Can I do it using FREE or inexpensive software?
Please send me e-mail, and I'll post replies that may be of use to
the net.
			Your replies are appreciated.
			Gerry Albert
			albert@morticia.cnns.unt.edu


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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: Re: That time of year ... request for snowflakes
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:10:13 GMT

Wilson Harvey (wah+@CS.CMU.EDU) wrote:
: Does anyone have PostScript code to generate outlines of snowflakes?
: The ability to generate different styles of flakes would be a plus.

There seems to be a "flake" subroutine in the following recent article.
I don't know the author's stance with respect to intellectual
property and derivative works.  The headers were:

	Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
	From:  jvr@or.math.lgu.spb.su (Joseph Romanovsky)
	Subject: Happy New Year in Russian style
	Reply-To: jvr@or.math.lgu.spb.su
	Organization: University of St-Petersburg
	Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:12:27 GMT
	Message-ID: <ACRRjBhCMA@or.math.lgu.spb.su>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: pgreen@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Philip Green)
Subject: How to test for Color Postscript
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 00:52:20 GMT

Is there a string that I can test for that will occur in 
Color Postscript but not Black & White?
I would like to verify that the file is a color postscript
file before sending it to the printer.

Thanks
-- 
Phil Green                           	pgreen@aoc.nrao.edu
NRAO					505.835.7294
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: ming@enel.ucalgary.ca (Yang Ming)
Subject: help needed for a symbol
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 00:25:18 GMT
Distribution: us
Organization: ECE Department, U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Hi. Does any body can tell me how to create a square root of epsilon sub e?
I get my p.s. file from the gnuplot, which does not have the ability to
create any subscripts. I have to edit the p.s. file to make the y-label
like that.


Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: zisk@adobe.com (Stephen Zisk)
Subject: Re: Problems with HP III, Macs & PC's, NW 3.11 & NW for Mac
Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:13:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.162528.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>,
cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:

> We are trying to set up a NetWare printer queue using a remote print-
> server PC, a NetWare 3.11 server, NetWare for Macintosh, an HP LJ III
> with the latest HP PS cartridge (PS Plus ?), so Mac and PC users can
> print through the same queue.

I presume you are using the parallel port?

> The problem is that the queue works fine for jobs sent in every possible
> manner from the PC's, but the Mac originated jobs barf with no PS errors
> or anything.

From the rest of what you say, I can think of two things that might
cause this behavior, although there are probably others:

    1.) Out-of-band characters. If the file contains characters
        with the high bit on, the transmission over a serial line
        set up for 7-bit transmission might be a problem. Alternatively,
        if it includes certain control characters, including ^C, ^D, ^Q,
        ^S, and ^T, everything will work fine on Appletalk, but these
        characters will be separately parsed on serial or parallel. This
        would probably cause a PostScript error, which would be silently
        swallowed if you are on the parallel port.

    2.) Line truncation: The Mac uses ^M to terminate a line, while the
        PC uses ^M^J. If the Netware, the spooler, or some other PC
        software component is reading lines of data, yours may be
        getting chopped by the intermediate steps.

Have you tried downloading an error handler? This might catch the
error and print a page with some cryptic but possibly helpful info.
Also, can you tell mee what kind of jobs these are? One page graphics,
ten page documents? What else?

Stephen Zisk (zisk@adobe.com)  Disclaimer: These are my personal views
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: jbk@world.std.com (Jeffrey B Kane)
Subject: Re: How to go from "Mac PS" to "Unix PS"
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:39:26 GMT

molinari@ccs.northeastern.edu (Bert Molinari) writes:

>in a similar vein, how do i past the fact that when you create a ps file
>by holding down the 'f' key during printing on the mac, i uses commands
>in the Appledict, which i don't have access to when trying to print from
>unix.  i  make docs on my mac, convert them to postscript by holding 'f'
>when printing, upload them to a sparc here and then try to print them but
>i get offending commands because the printer doesn't have Appledict.


>thanks in advance

>bert

You should understand that the "Postscript dump"  you get from your
command-f, command-k, or selecting the new "postscript file" buttons
on the newer print drivers is really a debugging feature to examine
the postscript output from the drivers.  Is was never designed to
be anything other than a dump of the code.  That's why it isn't
cross platform in nature.
         Jeffrey
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: ehandler.ps
Date: 12 Dec 92 09:03:02 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout



I screwed up and lost an enhanced ehandler.ps program.  It was posted to this
newsgroup in the recent past.

I would appreciate it if someone would send me a copy.

Thanks in advance.
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Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Monday, 14 Dec 1992 12:51:57 MST
From: Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: font convertors from adobe to postscript
 <1992Dec14.014406.2647@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>

Actually, there is a simple way of converting Adobe type I fonts on
the Mac to something that a Unix box will like.

Create a new document in your favorite word processor, and put a word
or two in the font you want to convert, and nothing else. Then, print
to disk (using that obscure key command I can never remember if you're
still on System 6, or the radio button in System 7). This'll give you
a straight ASCII file (7 bit, too, unless I'm mistaken) with, among
other things, the font buried somewhere in it (most likely near the
bottom). You can then cut an paste to get rid of the extra stuff, and
do a simple file transfer from Mac to Unix.

I used this method to get the standard 35 fonts in my copy of ATM
in a format that Ghostscript would like (on A/UX). It was somewhat
tedious, but it worked.

b&
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: molinari@ccs.northeastern.edu (Bert Molinari)
Subject: Re: How to go from "Mac PS" to "Unix PS"
Organization: CDSP Computing Lab, Northeastern University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:51:20 GMT

in a similar vein, how do i past the fact that when you create a ps file
by holding down the 'f' key during printing on the mac, i uses commands
in the Appledict, which i don't have access to when trying to print from
unix.  i  make docs on my mac, convert them to postscript by holding 'f'
when printing, upload them to a sparc here and then try to print them but
i get offending commands because the printer doesn't have Appledict.


thanks in advance

bert



Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript