Laser-Lovers-Request@WASHINGTON.ARPA.UUCP (07/14/86)
Info-Postscript for Laser Lovers Digest Monday, July 14, 1986 1:35PM
Volume 1, Issue 13
Today's Topics:
APL Font
Inconsistency in Appendix C of the PostScript manual
Upgrading an Apple LaserWriter to LaserWriter Plus
LW bug in treatment of "syntaxerror"?
sending postscript over appletalk
minor bug in TranScript 2.0
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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 86 13:28:46 est
From: sunrise!awesome!jgc@SUN.COM (Jim Constantine)
Subject: APL Font
I need a way to print the APL character set on an LaserWriter ?
Does anyone have such a font ? Is there any easy way to generate one ?
I have a Berkeley vfont format APL font, but that is probably of little use
on a postscript device, or can these be downloaded to the postscript
printer.
--Jim
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 86 09:21+0100
From: Ralph <MartinRR%multics.cardiff.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Inconsistency in Appendix C of the PostScript manual
The structuring conventions say that
a minimally conforming program should a least contain a line
%%DocumentFonts: font1 font2 ...
And it also says that
the keyword must be followed by one or more values...
Please, what am I supposed to do when my output is purely pictorial,
with no text in it at all. The above rules are inconsistent!
Ralph
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 86 13:09:50 est
From: allegra!phri!roy@seismo.CSS.GOV (Roy Smith)
Subject: Upgrading an Apple LaserWriter to LaserWriter Plus
Does anybody know what is involved in upgrading an Apple
LaserWriter to a LaserWriter Plus? From the "PostScript Language Update
for the Apple LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plus" from Adobe, it looks
like the only difference is a new ROM. My local Apple dealer says the
upgrade is $799 and consists of a new PC board. So far, I havn't been
able to even get a phone number of somebody to talk to at Apple who
might really know what the story is.
Once (if) we get the upgrade, what do we have to do to make
TransScript know about the new fonts? Do we just need new AFM files?
If so, how much do they cost?
Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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Date: Monday, 21 April 1986 16:47:29
Subject: LW bug in treatment of "syntaxerror"?
From: "Cambridge Phoenix - CAM.PHX@CAM.ENG-ICF" <CET1%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
There seems to be a bug in the LaserWriter (revision 0, PostScript
version 23.0), when driven via the RS232 port, to do with "syntaxerror":
after the usual error message the input stream is not flushed. Instead
an EOT (ctrl/D) is sent immediately by the LW and it then starts to
interpret the rest of the stream as a new job. Can anyone confirm this
effect, and/or state whether it is restricted to "syntaxerror" (as it
appears to me to be), and/or indicate whether it is fixed in revision 2?
Chris Thompson
CET1%PHX.CAM.AC.UK@UCL-CS.ARPA
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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 86 16:34+0100
From: Ralph <MartinRR%multics.cardiff.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: sending postscript over appletalk
I want to be able to send arbitrary postscript files, saved as text
files on a macintosh, to a laserwriter connected via appletalk. Does
anyone have a utility for doing this they would be willing to let me
have a .hqx file for?
I know that PSTester does more or less this, but it has one drawback -
it can't cope with long files (I guess it tries to read them into memory
first). I dont want to be able to fiddle about with the files, just
send them.
Any offers ?
Ralph
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Date: Thu 24 Apr 86 16:35:08-MST
From: Walt <Haas@UTAH-20.ARPA>
Subject: minor bug in TranScript 2.0
pscatmap.c does not set the return value to 0 on a normal exit, but
just falls out the bottom of the main procedure. This doesn't matter
on the VAX, but our Gould 9080 gives a garbage return value that causes
the invoking shell script to fail.
Solution: add "exit(0);" at the bottom of pscatmap.c.
Cheers -- Walt
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