Sundar_Prasad@mtsg.ubc.ca (Sundar) (05/10/90)
I am using a DA called Smart Art on the Mac which has a function that allows a postscript file to be sent to our attached laserwriter and the printer sends back a bitmap which we then use to help us place the graphic properly in Pagemaker. I have had no problem with this technique on Postscript files generated on a mainframe. All I did was remove the showpage command at the end and fool around with the bounding box parameter in the file and managed to get very good results. However, if I generate a postscript file using the F-key technique on the Mac itself (this is a graph generated by Wingz which I would like to format in Pagemaker), I have problems galore. Firstly, the postscript generated by the Mac is in short form (i guess its because the AppleDict procedure set is used to do the translation). I managed to determine that the instruction 'cp' had something to do with showpage and so I deleted it. In place of the question marks in the bounding box area, I put some numbers. However, if I try to do get a bitmap, the printer seems to indicate some translation activity, but all I get is a blank page. I feel it is something to do with the line: T T -124 -120 3044 2328 100 288 288 1 F F F F T T T psu in the sample file I am attaching below. I would be very thankful if someone could let me know what the above line does. It seems to use the coordinates of the PageBoundingBox parameter in some way to establish some scaling, but I can't make out anything. Mac generated postscript file below (without laser prep): %%CreationDate: Wednesday, May 9, 1990 %%Pages: (atend) %%BoundingBox: ? ? ? ? (i put 0 0 600 600 here) %%PageBoundingBox: 120 124 2328 3044 %%For: Ocean Engg. Group %%IncludeProcSet: "(AppleDict md)" 68 0 %%EndComments %%EndProlog %%BeginDocumentSetup md begin T T -124 -120 3044 2328 100 288 288 1 F F F F T T T psu (Ocean Engg. Group; document: Untitled-Layer#1)jn 0 mf od %%EndDocumentSetup %%Page: ? 1 op 0 0 xl 1 1 pen 0 0 gm (nc 0 0 2920 2208 6 rc)kp 0 setlinecap currentscreen 3 1 roll pop pop 60 45 3 -1 roll setscreen 64 gr 72 144 1080 1656 1 rc 16 16 pen 0 gr 15 25 453 683 0 rc F T cp ..... (i deleted cp and added ' save RESTORE ' in its place) %%Trailer cd end %%Pages: 1 0 %%EOF Sundar_Prasad@mtsg.ubc.ca <Internet> userffa3@ubcmtsg <Bitnet> Civil Engineering UBC, Vancouver V6T 1W5 CANADA