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From: lilianstrom@krang.fnal.gov (If its too loud,  You're too old)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: X-window PS for VMS?
Date: 1 Oct 1992 15:52:42 GMT
Organization: Fermilab Special Projects Group
Reply-To: lilianstrom@fndcd.fnal.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: krang.fnal.gov

In article <1992Sep30.205626.8975@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:
>I'm currently developing a Postscript program for printing a report.  I will
>also be doing other reports in the future.  However, the only Postscript
>interpreter that I have available is a printer.  I've already printed a third
>of a ream (sp?) of paper, and I do hate killing trees.
>
>I would like to use the X-station that is sitting on my desk as the output
>device until I want a hardcopy output.  I've found Ghostscript (GNU's
>Postscript interpreter) on athena-dist.mit.edu, but I don't have the time nor
>the inclination to port it.  (I've tried to port GNU stuff before, you see.)
>
>Would someone happen to know a site from which I may ftp an executable for
>VMS?  (No comments on my choice of platform, please.  That's not the issue.)
>In case that is not available, would someone know where I could get the C
>source code already ported for VMS?
>
>				Thanks in advance,
>					-=:[ VAL ]:=-
>
>P.S.: Followup if you think it's relevant, or send mail to me (at the address
>      in my signature).  I'll followup if I get significant replies.
>--
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Depending on what version of VMS you have installed and whether or not
DECwindows is installed, you may have a PostScript viewer.  Try
$View/Interface=DecWindows/Format=PostScript 'file.ps'

or $Help View

				al


Al Lilianstrom
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Batavia, Illinois
lilianstrom@fndcd.fnal.gov

My opinion.  Not the DOE's, URA's, or anyone else at Fermilab
From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: GhostScript: How do you send printer output to stdout?
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:49:46 GMT
Organization: Bull, P.O. Box 22859, NL-1100 DJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

In article <1992Sep30.124547.1908@athena.mit.edu> gwpoulos@athena.mit.edu (George W. Poulos) writes:

>Hi, I'm sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup to post to, but here is
>my problem.  I have GhostScript v2.3 compiled on an SGI Personal Iris
>to which I want to attach an HP LaserJet IIP.  I was hoping that I
>could use GhostScript with the laserjet device driver so that it could
>take postscript from standard input and output PCL4 printer code to
>standard output.  ...

Use Ghostscript 2.5. This can send output to a specified pipe.
In Ghostscript 2.3 this is NOT possible.

-- 
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--    Bull Nederland NV, Product Support Unix, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Laserjet emulation possible on PS?
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:22:16 GMT
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada

In article <1992Sep29.174449.14996@ohm.york.ac.uk> jkn@ohm.york.ac.uk (John Nicoll) writes:
>Hello all
>	I'm interested if anyone has written an
>HP-LaserJet
>emulation package for PostScript interpreters
>(and in general, in other printer emulations) .
>I realise that this might be a FAQ, but I
>haven't seen such a thing on this newsgroup.

There are two different packages.  One is called lj2ps, t'other
is hp2pbm.  The former does a relatively limited emulation of
PCL (ie: not including fonts downloads, graphics) to spit out
Postscript using PostScript's fonts (which means that there are
often problems with font metrics).

Hp2pbm (PL3) can convert all of PCL4 (including fonts, macros,
rasters etc.) into Poskanzer's Portable Bitmap format, and
pbm2ps (part of hp2pbm PL3) can then generate a PostScript
raster that is theoretically bit-for-bit identical with what
would have been printed on a HP Laserjet.

lj2ps was in comp.sources.unix I think.  hp2pbm in comp.sources.misc.
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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: 2-sided printing w/o crinkling?
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:25:04 GMT
Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon

[]

	"I can print double-sided by first printing the odd pages, then
	putting the output back into the input tray, and printing the
	even pages.  But when I do this I get a very high percentage of
	crinkled pages.  What can I do to avoid this?"

Wait an hour before printing the even pages, and flip through the pages
(expose them to air) a few times while you wait.  The first pass heats
the paper and drives out the moisture.

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: mwande@snowy.qal.berkeley.edu (Mike Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PostScript viewer?
Date: 3 Oct 1992 22:22:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: snowy.qal.berkeley.edu


Does anyone know where I can FTP some sort of utility which will let
me view postscript files? I like to make graphs, etc. using UNIX
over the phone, but I don't have a PS printer at home. I would like
to download the PS files and view them, rather than having to print
them out at work. Where can I find such a utility?

thanks in advance, Mike Anderson  

-- 
Mike Anderson    Dept. of Demography   UC Berkeley   mwande@QAL.Berkeley.EDU
"And I would say to those out around the country. 'Take a hard look now.
Don't let that rabbit be pulled out of the hat by one hand and 25 other 
rabbits dumped on you in another.'" - George Bush, 1/24/90 
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: jaffe@hoss.unl.edu (David Jaffe)
Subject: 2-sided printing w/o crinkling?
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:08:19 GMT

I have a postscript laser printer (TI Microlaser Plus).  I can print
double-sided by first printing the odd pages, then putting the output back into
the input tray, and printing the even pages.  But when I do this I get a very
high percentage of crinkled pages.  (The first time through, the output is 
fine.  But the second time through, crinkling occurs.)  What can I do to avoid
this?  The only thing I can think of is to use a different kind of paper.
What kind is best for this purpose?

David Jaffe (jaffe@hoss.unl.edu)
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: geoff@fulcrum.oz.au (Geoff Halprin)
Subject: PS vs. DPS vs. NeWS
Summary: Is there a comparison of PS, DPS and NeWS?
Keywords: Comparison
Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 07:45:13 GMT

Hi there,

Can anyone point me to an article/book/email/?? which gives a detailed
comparison of PostScript, Display PostScript, and Sun's NeWS??

I've never been able to find out the differences, and with the recent
Sun/Adobe announcement this seems like something I'd like to know.

Please email me responses. I will, of course, summarise to the list.

Thanks,

Geoff.
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From: rberlin@birdland.Eng.Sun.COM (Rich Berlin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Problem with ps emacs manual? Or am I totally insane?
Date: 6 Oct 1992 16:18:13 GMT
Organization: SunPics -- A Sun Microsystems Business
NNTP-Posting-Host: birdland

In article <EJH.92Oct5102202@khonshu.colorado.edu> ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett) writes:
>Here's the error message I get mailed to me if I try to print file1:
>
>Your printer job (emacs-18.57.ps) 
>could not be printed
>
>Messages from output filter:
>%%[ Error: Message: process(0x55c574, 'Unnamed process', runnable)
>Error: /dictfull
>Command: 'def'
>Ostack: /@setspecial {hof vof translate @setclipper rotat rotate @landscapemode @overlaymode}
>Estack:
>  at: '.array_exec_cont' {/dictfull *'standarderroraction'}
>  at: 'def' 'def'
>  at: '.psparse_token' file(?,W,R) ptr0x0004bd58
>  at: '.packedarray_exec_cont' {... 'save' 'put' 'clear' currexecfile 'cvx' *'exec'}
>  at: '.stopped_cont'
>  at: '.packedarray_exec_cont' {serverdict /save-state 'save' 'put' 'clear' packedarray{17} *'stopped' packedarray{5} 'if' packedarray{3} 'stopped' packedarray{3} ...}
>  at: '.end_exec'
>Dstack:
>  dictionary[100/100]
>  dictionary[2/200]
>  dictionary[9/200]
>  package(NeWSprint)
>  dictionary[373/2000]

This looks suspiciously like a bug in NeWSprint 2.0 Rev A (an
unmatched begin/end pair in an engine-level support procedure.)
Upgrading to NeWSprint 2.0 Rev C will fix it.

Sorry for the inconvenience....

-- Rich
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From: dmb@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Doug Brownell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: NeWSprint help
Date: 30 Sep 1992 18:28:01 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: lyapunov.ucsd.edu
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


I have a dumb question.  I have a number of Type 1 fonts
which won't print on our Sparc-printers, generating the error
message 'command "eexec" undefined'.  The message is somewhat
more complicated than that, but I'll refrain from posting
more unless asked.  Is this due to an older version of NeWS,
or is it intrinsic to Openwin?  The error page indicated I'm
using NeWSprint 1.0 fcs, Openwin 2, NeWSprint interpreter
version 2.1 .  I'd really like to be able to use these fonts!

The fonts work fine on an LWII.

Doug Brownell
dmb@jacobi.ucsd.edu
From: peterj@garfield.t-informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (Peter Jesinger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: enscript available?
Date: 27 Sep 1992 08:58:55 GMT
Organization: Berufsakademie Stuttgart
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: garfield.t-informatik.ba-stuttgart.de

Is the programm 'enscript' to convert a ascii file to postscript 
(and put 2 sides on one) available for ftp somewhwere?
Or, if not is there something that does the same?

Peter

-- 
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From: bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: NeWSprint help
Date: 2 Oct 92 11:23:50 GMT
In-reply-to: dmb@lyapunov.ucsd.edu's message of 30 Sep 92 18:28:01 GMT


In article <1acrjhINNdeh@network.ucsd.edu> dmb@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Doug Brownell) writes:

   I have a dumb question.  I have a number of Type 1 fonts
   which won't print on our Sparc-printers, generating the error
   message 'command "eexec" undefined'.  The message is somewhat
   more complicated than that, but I'll refrain from posting
   more unless asked.  Is this due to an older version of NeWS,
   or is it intrinsic to Openwin?  The error page indicated I'm
   using NeWSprint 1.0 fcs, Openwin 2, NeWSprint interpreter
   version 2.1 .  I'd really like to be able to use these fonts!

Version 1.0 does not support T1 fonts.  Get version 2.0.  It does support T1,
although it has a number of bugs (that apparently will be ironed out by the
time version 2.1 rolls around).

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: mfleeter@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael S Fleeter)
Subject: Help!
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 03:38:43 GMT

I hope someone can help me.  I have a program that was written
by someone else that uses postscript commands.  When I send the
files to the printer, I only get listings of the files; no 
graphics.  

I am at Purdue University.  Does someone know the lpr command
that will send catenated files to the printer so it will work
with graphics?

I hope I'm not confusing you.  I could send out this program.

Basically, it will print out cassette labels.  You cat the program
with a file that "fills in the blanks" and it should work.  It works
other places.  I just need to know if there is some option I should
choose.

Thanks,
Mike
mfleeter@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Determining the height of a string ?
Date: 26 Sep 92 06:49:53 GMT
Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado

pererik@cmi.no (Per-Erik Nordbo) writes:
>rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>|> pererik@cmi.no (Per-Erik Nordbo) writes:
>|> >I would like to fill the bounding box of a string before I 'show' ...
...[stringwidth doesn't give the right info]...
>|> What you want is a bounding box for the string, which you can get using the
>|> charpath and pathbbox operators.
...
>The pathbbox operator has some drawbacks, however...
...
>"If the user coordinate system is rotated (other than by multiples of 90 degrees) or skewed, 'pathbbox' may return a bounding box that is larger than expected."

Yes, because pathbbox's bounding box is calculated in device space and
transformed back into user space.  One way around this is to get the
bounding box while the axes are aligned and hang on to it--for example,
with aligned axes, put yourself at the origin and get the bounding box,
then delta-transform it.  Move and rotate to where you want to be, then
inverse-delta-transform it to get the box you want.

This is sounding heavy-handed.  (I'm waiting for somebody like Henry or
Glenn to step in with a simple, obvious solution and make me feel like a
dolt.:-)

If you'd rather do the computation upstream of the printer, use .afm
files, since those have the bounding boxes.  It's more work for you, since
you've got to write a small gob of code to get the afm data and walk down
the string building the bounding box.  But it ends up being a lot less
computation than the charpath ritual.
-- 
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   Clowns are necessities, not luxuries.
From: bradlee@cg-atla.UUCP (Rob Bradlee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Questions on PS errorhandling
Keywords: error
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:03:08 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division, Wilmington, Mass. USA

I've started maintaining a piece of "system" PostScript code that we include 
with our RIPs.  This code has very careful error handling which has raised
serveral questions in my mind.

	1) Glenn Reid mentions someplace in "Thinking in PS" that 
		/routine errordict /typecheck get exec 
	   is bad form.  In his example on pg. 139 he uses the form
		errordict begin (concatenate) typecheck end

	Would Glenn or any one else care to elaborate on the relative 
	benefits of "get exec" vs "begin...end".


	2) I see in Glenn's above example and in some of the code that 
	   I'm checking that the input is validated at the beginning
	   and if there is an error then one of the errordict routines
	   is called which has the effect of jumping out of the routine.
	   Therefore Glenn doesn't bother to put the rest of the code
	   in a ifelse clause.  For example:

			dup type /arraytype ne {
				errordict begin (concatenate) typecheck end
				} if
			rest of code here

	versus:


			dup type /arraytype ne {
				errordict begin (concatenate) typecheck end
				} {
				rest of code here
				} ifelse

	I much prefer the former example because it's much simpler, but
	are there any unknown consequences?

	3) Finally, one technique of validating a routines input is to
		{ dup } stopped
	   Is this any better than 
		count 1 ge





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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: wrp@ivy.unisys.com (Bill Pringle)
Subject: FAQ - any volunteers?
Organization: Paramax Systems, Ivyland, PA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:17:17 GMT


Anyone feel like volunteering to take charge of the FAQ for this group?

It seems that we have a lot of FAQs that keep appearing, usually preceeded
by "I tried to find a FAQ, but ..." or "this is probably a FAQ ..."

I would rather not volunteer because:
	(a) I only know enough postscript to be dangerous
	(b) I don't have much time.

On the other hand, I would be willing to try to put something together
if we couldn't find any sucker - er, kind soul to take charge.

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: mslade@netcom.com (Michael Slade)
Subject: Re: Need "handwriting-like" PostScript font
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:20:59 GMT

bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:


>In article <JIT.92Sep28012028@Xenon.stanford.edu> jit@Xenon.stanford.edu (Satyajit Nath) writes:

>   I am looking for a PostScript font that would let me print text as if 
>   it is handwritten. I believe such fonts are known as "cursive" fonts.
>   I have access to ZapfChancery, but it looks too "flourishy" ...

>LucidaHandwriting-Italic designed by Kris Holmes of Bigelow & Holmes is
>great for this.  It's part of the LucidaBright + LucidaNewMath font set.

>There also some `stick-writing' PD fonts flying around,such as that by
>Haeberli...

>Berthold K.P. Horn
>Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Another interesting thing in this vain is a company called Signature
Software in Portland, OR.  (800)925-8840
They will take a sample of your handwriting
and produce both PostScript and TrueType(boo) personal fonts.
They claim that this only is for the Mac for now.
The really cool thing about their technology is that the PostScript
that comes out has the cursive characters connected just as if 
written by hand.
I have seen sample output and it looks great - I have not tried the
process myself yet.
The cost is less than I expected.
I have no connection with this company - it just seems like a cool idea.
-- Michael Slade, Datavision Technologies
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: geoffw@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Geoffrey Warren Hicks)
Subject: Re: enscript available?
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:26:59 GMT


Posted on behalf of Craig Southeren who does not have access to
a net account:
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Yup, I wrote nenscript and I have new version in the works with
a few more features. Contact me as show below if you want more info

   Craig



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From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: problems popping prologs
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:47:14 GMT
Organization: Steve's Personal machine / Tustin, CA

Jim DeLaHunt from Adobe writes:

> Write your application suppliers and ask for a version of the software 
> which doesn't require a prolog outside the server loop.  If they don't 
> know how to do that, send them to Adobe Developer Support!

I've not seen anything on this in ages, so I thought I would put
in a plug for Adobe's PostScript Software Development Kit.  It
includes all the normal PS books, three huge notebooks of
articles and tech notes, bunches of disks with sample PS code, a
couple of font packages, and (possibly) a cool Adobe T shirt.

I got mine for $250 after joining the Adobe Developer Assn, and
even my limited use of it has been well worth it.  Adobe seems
quite serious about supporting their developers, so if you are
a serious PostScript developer, I recommend looking into it.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: delahunt@adobe.com (Jim DeLaHunt)
Subject: Re: PPD files: How hard are they to create?
Summary: PPD on the way; in general they are available at same time as printer
Keywords: PPD, Postscript, Compaq, PageMarq, Milan, Interleaf
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 01:43:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep18.234017.8110@ims.com> billr@ims.com writes:
>I am considering purchasing one of the new Compaq PageMarq 20
>Postscript printers .... Compaq has not implemented
>a PPD file for their printer ...  How difficult is it to create
>and implement a PPD file?  (or what am I letting myself in for?)

Generally, Adobe QA verifies PPD files, and releases them when the printer 
ships. (This practice started with the shipment of PostScript Level 2 
products, and we've held to it pretty well.)  In the case of the Compaq 
PAGEMARQ printers, the PPD files were delayed.  A couple of new features of 
the PAGEMARQ printers required us to make some minor interpretations of the 
PPD spec, and we couldn't complete the PPD files until we made those 
decisions.

I expect the PPD files to be completed soon.  When completed, they will be 
available via Adobe Developer Support's mail-response file server 
(ps-file-server@adobe.com).  I imagine Compaq will also make them available,
but I don't know how.

I don't recommend attempting to make a PPD file yourself.  As a stopgap
until the real PPD is available, perhaps you could use the PPD for another
printer as a stand-in.  Lie to Interleaf and tell it you are using some
other PostScript Level 2 printer, and I'll bet you'll be able to format
and print documents.  Only the details of the built-in fonts and the 
number of paper trays will be incorrect.

This is not a long-term solution, but perhaps it will serve as a temporary
work-around.

>-------------------------------------------------------------
> Bill Rea               Integrated Measurement Systems Inc.
> billr@ims.com          Beaverton,  Oregon
>-------------------------------------------------------------

	--Jim DeLaHunt, Developer Support, Adobe Systems Incorporated	
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Subject: Apple LaserWriter-IIg cutting off tops of pages?
Organization: New York University, School of Medicine
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:52:17 GMT

	I've got CAP-6.100 working on a DECstation-5000 driving an
Apple LaserWriter IIg on ethernet.  Everything basically works fine,
except that the top half of the top line of text on every page gets
cut off.  Anybody have any idea what might be wrong?
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