daveo@soozie.sbi.com (Dave Bloom) (06/20/91)
I'm having an interesting problem and maybe one of you folks out
there can help me out.
I am using the openwindows xnews server as a filter to rasterize
some PostScript into Sun raster images. Basically, I add a preamble
to the code I want to rasterize which redefines showpage to dump
the raster into a file instead of painting it on a canvas. It works
great.
I've tested this with all sorts of PostScript. The funky part
happens when I take PostScript generated by MS Word on a Mac...
Apparently, the command to capture the PostScript before it hits
the printer prepends the Laserprep file, which is all well and good.
Except for the fact that the file has a series of ASCII hex digits
(pages long) which I assume is some kind of font specification.
When I run this through my rasterizer, it barfs on all the digits,
("undefined"), ignores them but seems to rasterize the file just fine.
The questions:
1) Just what do these digits represent?
2) Are they necessary?
3) Is there a switch I can add to the PostScript which will tell
my interpeter to ignore them?
3) If not, can we get laserprep files without the mysterious hex?
4) If not, how can I filter them out without blowing away necessary
stuff?
Please respond by e-mail, I'm not a subscriber to these groups.
I will summarize and post the results.
Thanx!
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