edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius) (04/03/91)
Hi, we are going to be taking a new Kodak high-speed postscript printer for a test drive soon, and I'd like to get my hands on the "toughest" postscript programs out there to test it with. I would have to make sure they do in fact work on Apple LaserWriters first. If you have anything to pass me for this, please do so, or point me to an ftp site for it. I hope I get some real "doozies"! :> From what I understand, this Kodak printer is supposed to be a good one. If you are interested in the results, let me know. --eric
asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Adam Smith) (04/03/91)
edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius) writes: > Hi, we are going to be taking a new Kodak high-speed postscript printer for > a test drive soon, and I'd like to get my hands on the "toughest" postscript > programs out there to test it with. I would have to make sure they do in > fact work on Apple LaserWriters first. If you have anything to pass me > for this, please do so, or point me to an ftp site for it. Seems to me that what you should look for, besides a complex file, is a dirty one. ########################################################################## asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca The Chameleon Papers - Vancouver, BC Graphic Artist - Bad Mood Guy - NeXT user Human beings are a great disappointment to me, and it doesn't help one bit that I am one --SF ########################################################################## Fingers Down The Throat Of Love
cdh@specialix.co.uk (Alan Drew) (04/06/91)
acli@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Ambrose C. Li) writes: >In article <3692@ux.acs.umn.edu> you write: >> [A Request] >The actual code is not really complicated, but this is one of the things >that I won't dare to send to the Laserwriter at peak times; the time to >decode Hershey plus the time to scale it at 24 pts simply kills a Laser- >writer. The doc says that it should print out a sample of Hershey Gothic >English in 8 minutes but the Laserwriter printed it in 16. Can you mail >me how long it takes to print it? I'm curious... > [encoded postcript deleted] Tried this on a TI microlaser with a postscript cartridge and 2 Megs of RAM in it. Does the Hershey font in 11.5 minutes. Damn nice font too. While I am here does anybody have any more font's available or is there an ftp site I can get them from (.afm or postscript) Thanks
kaz@nanovx.UUCP (Mike Kazmierczak) (04/08/91)
In article <3692@ux.acs.umn.edu> edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius) writes: >Hi, we are going to be taking a new Kodak high-speed postscript printer for >a test drive soon, and I'd like to get my hands on the "toughest" postscript >programs out there to test it with. I would have to make sure they do in >fact work on Apple LaserWriters first. If you have anything to pass me /Times-Roman findfont 35 scalefont setfont 0 0 moveto (Hello) show /Times-Roman findfont 150 scalefont setfont newpath 80 220 moveto (Hello) false charpath clip /inch {72 mul} def /circle { 0 setlinewidth newpath 0 360 arc stroke} def /spiro { /ncircles exch def ncircles { 80 0 65 circle 360 ncircles div rotate } repeat } def /drawx { 3 3 rmoveto -6 -6 rlineto 0 6 rmoveto 6 -6 rlineto stroke} def 0 setlinewidth 4 inch 3 inch translate 90 spiro 2 inch 1 inch translate 200 spiro -3 inch 0 inch translate 150 spiro grestore showpage Try this one... Mike Kazmierczak X Systems Mail replies to: mike%beow.uucp@gatech.edu
cnbr17@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (04/12/91)
In article <119@nanovx.UUCP>, kaz@nanovx.UUCP (Mike Kazmierczak) writes: > In article <3692@ux.acs.umn.edu> edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius) writes: >>Hi, we are going to be taking a new Kodak high-speed postscript printer for >>a test drive soon, and I'd like to get my hands on the "toughest" postscript >>programs out there to test it with. I would have to make sure they do in >>fact work on Apple LaserWriters first. If you have anything to pass me > > > > /Times-Roman findfont 35 scalefont setfont > 0 0 moveto (Hello) show > /Times-Roman findfont 150 scalefont setfont > newpath 80 220 moveto (Hello) false charpath clip > /inch {72 mul} def > /circle { 0 setlinewidth newpath 0 360 arc stroke} def > /spiro { > /ncircles exch def > ncircles { > 80 0 65 circle > 360 ncircles div rotate > } repeat > } def > /drawx { 3 3 rmoveto -6 -6 rlineto > 0 6 rmoveto 6 -6 rlineto stroke} def > 0 setlinewidth > 4 inch 3 inch translate > 90 spiro > 2 inch 1 inch translate > 200 spiro > -3 inch 0 inch translate > 150 spiro > grestore > showpage > > Try this one... > Mike Kazmierczak > X Systems > Mail replies to: mike%beow.uucp@gatech.edu Since there's been a lot of discussion about SPARCprinters in this newsgroup recently, I tried printing this on ours. It printed in about 25 seconds. The large Hello with the criss-crossed circles looks perfect; however there seems to be a slight problem with the Hello at (0,0) -- it's clipped down the left side and along the bottom. I measure it at about 6mm from the left edge of the paper, and 3mm from the bottom. I checked the NeWSprint manual, and it says the following (appendix F, section F-5): The Sun SPARCprinter has a slightly smaller imageable area on the page than that of a LaserWriter. Files that intentionally place text or graphics at the edges of the page may be clipped. We haven't had any problems with this to date; if it should become a problem, does anyone know of a way round it? eg translating and/or scaling the image? (I don't know much (anything?) about PostScript). Peter Duffy. -- ================================================================================ Peter Duffy |JANET: p.duffy@uk.ac.strath.vaxa EEE Dept. |Internet:p.duffy%vaxa.strath.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Strathclyde University|BITNET: p.duffy%vaxa.strath.ac.uk@UKACRL Glasgow G1 1XW |UUCP: p.duffy%vaxa.strath.ac.uk@ukc.uucp Scotland. | ================================================================================
jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (04/15/91)
In article edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius) writes: > Hi, we are going to be taking a new Kodak high-speed postscript printer for > a test drive soon, and I'd like to get my hands on the "toughest" postscript > programs out there to test it with. They're not all that tough, but the files that Brian Reid recently posted to news.lists.ps-maps do take a while to print. You could use them for speed comparisons. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: jms@tardis.tymnet.com or jms@gemini.tymnet.com BT Tymnet Tech Services | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-C51 | BIX: smithjoe | CA license plate: "POPJ P," (PDP-10) San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | humorous dislaimer: "My Amiga 3000 speaks for me."