HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dave@macdavid.han.de (David C Long)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.sun.wanted
Subject: Re: WANTED: Type-1 -> F3 font conversion util.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 21:14:39 MET
Organization: Hannover, W. Germany
Reply-To: dave@macdavid.han.de
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In article <92248.144525IFF291@DJUKFA11.BITNET> (comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.sun.wanted), IFF291@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Stephan Petersen) writes:
> Does anybody know of a utility that can convert Type-1
> fonts to the F3 format?

Stephan,

On a Mac, I think you can do this with Metamorphosis Pro from Altsys
Corp.

This program generates fonts in Mac, PC or NeXT flavors.

Dave

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From: pv@semt1.smts.cea.fr (Pierre Verpeaux)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Color detection
Date: 10 Sep 92 19:20:48 GMT
Organization: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique - France

Is it possible to know in a Postscript program if color is supported on
the output (screen or printer) ?

I want to write Postscript programs which behave differently on monochrome
or colors printers but i did not find a way to know how a color is rendered.

-- 
Pierre Verpeaux 	DMT/SEMT/LAMS		(1)69.08.65.42
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Wp 5.1 to a HP LJ IIIp with PS
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:20:27 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <92254.081718ICSBJB@ASUACAD.BITNET> Burt Bartram <ICSBJB@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>I am having a problem with this setup.  When I first turn on the PC and
>printer in the morning and try to print, I get an "add more memory" message
>on the HP IIIp LED display.  I have 3 mb of memory on the printer and a
>HP Postscript cartridge.  I turn off the printer, turn it back on and have
>no problems the rest of the day.  WordPerfect LaserSupport Group could
>not help.  Can anyone help?  Thanks in advance.

This has nothing to do with WordPerfect, period. That's why their
support group didn't have an answer, no doubt.

For some reason your printer is not detecting the presence of the 2 MB
memory  added to the IIIP. This happens more often with memory cards
manufactured by companies other than Hewlett-Packard.

Try removing and reseating the memory card a few times. The fit is
very tight, and third-party cards designed for the IIP/III often
don't seat all the way on a IIIP unless you are very forceful.\


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From: ulrich@galki.toppoint.de (Ulrich Gall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Wanted: List of postscript interpreters
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 11:31:48 GMT
Distribution: world               
Organization: private UUCP site, Kiel, Germany



Does anypne have a complete list of postscript interpreters?


Thanks,

Ulrich

Ulrich Gall, Seebrooksberg 2, W-2300 Klausdorf, Germany
Tel.: +49-431-790292, EMail: ulrich@galki.toppoint.de
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: No Zapf-Dingbats in my Apple LaserWriter IIf ?
Organization: Trilithon Software
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:05:37 GMT

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).
Neither the LaserWriter IIf nor the LaserWriter IIg contain Zapf
Dingbats built into ROM.  True, the printers contain 35 fonts, but
one of the 35 is an ``EmulatorFont'', which replaced Zapf Dingbats
in the current incarnation of these printers.  Note that the Users
Manual for the IIf and IIg categorically states that Zapf Dingbats
are a part of the resident font set, but a simple program to print
the list of resident fonts disproves this claim.

You have to download Dingbats, either ahead of time, or with the job.

        ........  Henry
From: drucbert@reseau.Berkeley.EDU (Groupe CERT)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: No Zapf-Dingbats in my Apple LaserWriter IIf ?
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:10:41 GMT
Reply-To: drucbert@reseau.Berkeley.EDU (Groupe CERT)

There is no dash in the name of the font. It is ZapfDingbats.

drucbert@onecert.fr
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Splash your graphics will metal-looking objects (example given)
Date: 6 Sep 92 05:19:13 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Sep5.064148.4276@cs.brown.edu> jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat) writes:

<  4 dict begin  % If you don't know dictionaries, you should learn them.

Should have followed your on advice.  On a Apple LaserWriter IINT, the
dictionary is filled and an error occurs.  I changed the 4 to a 10 and
it printed.

I didn't go counting to see if the number could be smaller than 10, but
larger or = to 5.
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From: nick@sw.stratus.com (Nicolas Tamburri)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Request for info
Date: 10 Sep 92 20:39:23 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

I've been banging my head against a wall lately with what I think is a
pretty simple problem,  but I may be too thick to see the solution to.
Any help would really be appreciated:

I have a spooler program which downloads a prelude to a PS printer (level 1
PS assumed.)  The prelude does an exitserver, defines some helper routines
in userdict to make printing ASCII easier and a rudimentary error handler,
and exits leaving the routines "permanently" in VM.  This works fine for
all PS files except those generated on NeXTs using FrameMaker.  They
abort with a dictfull error because they overflow the userdict capacity.
(I define about 3 dozen routines.)

I see 2 solutions to this problem:  

	1. Ideally, I'd like to put all my routines into a spooler specific
	   dictionary, and leave userdict alone.  Unfortunatelly, I can't
	   figure out how to push a dictionary onto the dict stack, and
	   have it stay there between jobs.  Reinitializing the stack order
	   at the beginning of each job wouldn't work, because a program
	   can fool around with the dictionary order anyway.

	2. Extend the userdict capacity by the number of definitions I define
	   in my prelude.  I can't figure out how to do this either.  Can it
	   even be done?

Apologies if all this is too trivial for you wizards, and I hope it's not a
FAQ.  Again any help would be appreciated, and you can send it directly to me.  If
enough people express interest, I'll post a summary.

Thanks again.

						/nt
						nick@sw.stratus.com
From: mwl@csa.bu.edu (Manny Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: troff -> postscript  under DOS
Date: 7 Sep 92 05:58:16 GMT
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department
Originator: mwl@csa




Does anyone know where i can get a DOS program to will 
translate troff file to postscript file (not to the printer) ?
i need one that's compartible (closest one is fine) with
psroff on unix.

thanx
				=Manny
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Split very large postscript file
Date: 8 Sep 92 02:49:43 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Sep7.172147.3656@ens.fr> beig@dmi.ens.fr writes:
<|> > Hello, netters
<|> >
<|> >        I have a problem in printing out a large postscript file(about
<|> > 4 Meg).The error message is " lpr: input file is too large". Does anyone
<|> > know how to solve my problem ? Is there any program that can split a 
<|> > large postscript file in several small pieces?
<|> 
<|> This is often a problem with the spooler software. No space in
<|> spooler directory. If so try `lpr -s' on a standard unix system. -s tells
<|> spooler not to copy file to spooler dir., but to spool it directly from
<|> original location.
<
<Check with your local administrative staff that the mx# parameter
<in /etc/printcap files is correct. No mx# means mx#1, i.e.
<files are limited to 1 MByte. Use mx#0 to set unlimited limit.
<
<Of course, with no limits, you can after overflow the disk space
<for the spool. And using 'lpr -s' is a good idea against this
<trouble.

This last one won't work over a network.  The printed file is copied to the
computer actually doing the printing.  You can still run out of space.
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Where is ps2hpgl?
Date: 4 Sep 92 07:49:56 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Sep2.163642.8687@hellgate.utah.edu> jjones%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Jack Jones) writes:
<
<	I am in despirate need of a program (or something) that converts 
<postscript files to something an hp7550 plotter can understand (hpgl). 
<Maybe something like 'ps2hpgl', NOT hpgl2ps.

Keep in mind that hpgl is not PostScript.  Hpgl doesn't have scalable fonts.
Personally I believe it is easier to find a real PostScript printer than it
is to get PostScript output on a hpgl printer.  The two devices are just not
the same.

Pure graphics have a better chance of getting converted, anything with text
is going to be the toughest.

Good luck.
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From: goldstei@cgi.com ("Morris Goldstein")
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Problem with clipping box?
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:27:18 GMT

We have several LaserWriter IIf printers which have an excessive
clipping area.  On our other printers you can print to within 1/4 inch
of the page edge, however on these LaserWriter IIf printers all output
is clipped to within 1/2 inch of the page edge.  I've tried setting
the clipping region to boxes both larger and smaller than this.
Smaller clipping boxes are not problem but larger ones have no effect.

I was told something about these printers being configured for higher
resolution and thus had a smaller printable area.  Does this make any
sense and if so how can we change the resolution so we have a larger
printable area?

As I don't read this news group directly (I post via ucbvax.berkeley)
please reply to me directly at goldstein@cgi.com.

Thanks.

	-Morris
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: amoreno@unixg.ubc.ca (Andrew Moreno)
Subject: Full Text Justification: Help
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 06:40:56 GMT

Hi. Can someone tell me the procedure used to full justify a block or paragraph of text. If anyone has any code samples, I would like to see those too.
Thanks.

amoreno@unixg.ubc.ca             Andrew Moreno
From: beig@dmi.ens.fr (Jacques Beigbeder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Split very large postscript file
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:21:47 GMT
Reply-To: beig@dmi.ens.fr
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

|> > Hello, netters
|> >
|> >        I have a problem in printing out a large postscript file(about
|> > 4 Meg).The error message is " lpr: input file is too large". Does anyone
|> > know how to solve my problem ? Is there any program that can split a 
|> > large postscript file in several small pieces?
|> 
|> This is often a problem with the spooler software. No space in
|> spooler directory. If so try `lpr -s' on a standard unix system. -s tells
|> spooler not to copy file to spooler dir., but to spool it directly from
|> original location.

Check with your local administrative staff that the mx# parameter
in /etc/printcap files is correct. No mx# means mx#1, i.e.
files are limited to 1 MByte. Use mx#0 to set unlimited limit.

Of course, with no limits, you can after overflow the disk space
for the spool. And using 'lpr -s' is a good idea against this
trouble.

-- 
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From: hosking@cs.umass.edu (Tony Hosking)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Trouble including Mac PostScript files as EPSF in LaTeX.
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:35:18 GMT
Reply-To: hosking@cs.umass.edu
Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst)

I have been experiencing problems with the Macintosh Proc Set that comes with
MacOS version 7.0.  Specifically, I am trying to include PostScript output
from Excel in a LaTeX document using epsf.sty.  The PostScript output prints
on some printers but other printers complain about some of the stuff in the
Mac ProcSet:

%%DocumentProcSets: "(AppleDict md)" 71 0
%% ) Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 1989-91 All Rights Reserved.

etc.

that gets prepended by Excel when creating a PostScript file.  Does anyone out
there have a fixed Mac ProcSet that is kinder and gentler on the slew of
PostScript printers that exist in the world?

Please email replies.

Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Dantowitz)
Subject: Looking for a PC-based "SendPS" program or source code
Originator: david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 11:45:32 GMT


HI,

  I'm looking for a way to send PostScript files from a PC with
  an ethernet card to an Agfa PostScript printer (RIP).  Does anyone
  know the answers to the following questions?

  1) How long would it take to write a driver?
  2) Does the driver need to build AppleTalk packets into the ethernet
     packets?
  3) Would it be easier to write a "SendPS" program for the Mac?
  4) How long would that take?
  5) Any consultants out there with such experience?
  6) Can I buy a PC-to-RIP (via ethernet) solution to incorporate into
     my own program?

Thanks.

-- 
David Dantowitz
david@cs.ucla.edu

Singing Barbershop when I'm not doing parallel simulation
From: slcx9@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Need a Postscript-->ASCII converter
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:55:33 MDT
Organization: Utah State University


Greetings !!

Can someone out there tell me if there exists a Postscript to ASCII conversion
program & where can I inherit it from ??

Thank You Very Much.

Hemanshu Doshi
e-mail: SLCX9@cc.usu.edu
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Unknown plot format, help please!
Keywords: Plotting, postscript, HELP!
Date: 5 Sep 92 17:13:18 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <leif.715604421@ifm.liu.se> leif@ifm.liu.se (Leif Hedstrom) writes:
<Hi!
<
<I have a software which generates a plot-file of unknown format. Could
<someone help me identify it? I would also like to print this file on
<a postscript printer, so any hints on conversion programs are appreciated.
<
<Thanks,
<
<-- Leif
<
<Header of plot file:
<
<
<IN;SP1;VS2
<IW4797,2997,11204,7004;
<PU5353,6878;PD10798,6878;PU5353,6677;PD10798,6677;PU5330,6874;PD10822,6874;PU533
<0,6681;PD10822,6681;PU5318,6870;PD10833,6870;PU5318,6685;PD10833,6685;PU5310,686
<6;PD10841,6866;PU5310,6689;PD10841,6689;PU5303,6862;PD10848,6862;PU5303,6693;PD1

Gee, this was an easy test.

It is HPGL.
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From: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Ghostscript + distill?
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:41:12 GMT
Reply-To: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones)
Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT

In article <1992Sep8.114437.28018@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, alfie@dcs (Nick Holloway) writes:
>In <1992Sep7.211025.6855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones) writes:
>> [ Vanishing text when using Glenn Reids Distillery with Ghostscript ]
>> 
>> This is typical: All font-setting commands simply disappear.  As a
>> wild guess, I'd say this probably has something to do with the way
>> findfont operates in GhostScript, but does anyone know for sure?
>
>Distill uses the /ScaleMatrix in the font, which is not created by
>Ghostscript.  This means that it will just ignore all text.  This seems
>to be maintained by the operators scalefont and makefont.  
>
>There is no mention of this dictionary element in the Adobe books I
>could lay my hands on.
>
>Here are my versions of these operators to perform the necessary
>housekeeping (behaviour derived from asking a laser printer nicely).

Your definitions of scalefont and makefont do seem to solve the
problem.

Unfortunately, now it seems that distill doesn't work with version 71
of the LaserPrep header (neither does bbfig).  Luckily I have an
alternative now.

Thanks for you answer.

David M. Jones                              "Trifles! Trifles light as air!"
dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu                              -- the Hystricide
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: wrp@pslsrv1.gvl.unisys.com (Bill Pringle)
Subject: Re: Readers Digest Condensed Summary of Postscript?
Keywords: postscript, novice, wishful thinking
Organization: Paramax Systems, Ivyland, PA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:55:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.150309.27178@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> andy@ian.stx.com writes:
>Howdy, and forgive me if this is a FAQ (which I've been watching for; can
>anybody point me to one to ftp?), or worse yet, an unrealistic request:
>
>Has anyone got a brief overview of Postscript handy?  Yes, I'm looking
>for a good book for a more complete study (any recommendations?), and
>NO, I don't expect to be able to gain a full working knowledge from 
>self study, trial and error, and the kindness of strangers.  But I've
>gleened some aspects of it just by looking at LOTS of example Postscript,
>and I'm *almost* brave enough to dive in and try some...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I would recommend the Blue Book (Tutorial & Cookbook) and "Thinking in
PostScript" which I just finished and found quite good.  (Thanks, Glenn)
============================================================================
Bill Pringle                      Software Tools
Paramax Corporation               Voice: (215)443-7500 X4023
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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PCL to Postscript Converter
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:26:21 GMT
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada

In article <572@nsg.nsg.com.au> geoff@nsg.nsg.com.au (Geoff Bullen) writes:
>Does anyone know where I can find a PCL to Postscript converter
>program ??

There's a lj2ps, which transcribes a limited subset of PCL to PostScript.
Hp2pbm translates all of PCL4 into a portable bitmap, which pbm2ps (included
with hp2pbm at PL2) can print.

Both available from comp.sources.misc.
-- 
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Psroff 3.0 info: psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
From: dws@menlo.cadre.com (David W. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Q: problems encoding for ISOLatin1
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:52:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: menlo.1992Sep9.165226.3476
Organization: Cadre Technologies Inc., Menlo Park Operation

Apologies if this is a FAQ.  My need is recent, and there's no trace
of a FAQ in our scant archives.

We need to reencode Courier to support ISOLatin1.  This would seem to be
a straightforward problem, using the reencoding example on pp 115-6 of the
Green book, and the character code/name table on pp 254-5 of the Red book.
Unfortunately, we have not been able to make this work.

After reencoding the font, we attempt to print out a table of the upper
half of the font, via

	(\200 ... \207) show
	...
	(\270 ..  \277) show

Which gives us an Error: invalidfont.  The character code that PostScript
chokes on seems to be dependent on fontsize.  For 12 point re-encoded Courier,
the culpret seems to be \300 (Agrave).  For 16 point, we make it as far as
\340 (agrave) before getting deep sixed.

Are we running into a known problem?  We're using a LaserWrite II NTX, and
have heard that there may be a known problem there.  If anyone has run up
against this and solved it, we would love to learn the particulars.  Any
help/suggestions/pointers will be greatly appreciated.  If this isn't
a FAQ, I'll summarize and repost.

-- 
Dave Smith, Cadre Technologies Inc. - Database Tools Division
4500 Bohannon Drive, Suite 150, Menlo Park, CA  94025
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale)
Subject: Email address for Stephen F. Roth?
Organization: DSG, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 18:27:04 GMT

Does anybody have an email address for Stephen F. Roth, editor of "Real
World Postscript"?


Thanks in advance,
Ciaran.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript