jazz@gug.UUCP (Jeff Roberts) (03/23/90)
I support a (third party) PostScript interpreter here, and don't have the kind of time I need to stay as current as I'd like. Lately, I've been getting a lot of bug reports. When I look at the files, I see ctrl-D's and ctrl-L's throughout, which I've not seen until lately. Also, the keywords "11x17" and "11x17tray" occasionally pop up in statusdict definition. Can someone fill me in on what may be happening here? -- Jeff Roberts Intergraph Corporation (UUCP) ...uunet!ingr!b11!maven!jazz (Internet) b11!maven!jazz@ingr.com
batcheldern@hannah.enet.dec.com (Ned Batchelder) (03/27/90)
> I support a (third party) PostScript interpreter here, and don't have the kind > of time I need to stay as current as I'd like. Lately, I've been getting a > lot of bug reports. When I look at the files, I see ctrl-D's and ctrl-L's > throughout, which I've not seen until lately. Also, the keywords "11x17" > and "11x17tray" occasionally pop up in statusdict definition. Can someone fill > me in on what may be happening here? Ctrl-L is a form feed, and is legitimate whitespace. Your interpreter should accept it as such. Ctrl-D is often used by serially-connected PostScript printers to indicate the end-of-file. It is not part of the PostScript language, and has been used erroneously by the files you are getting. Complain to whoever generated the files. 11x17 and 11x17tray are references to paper that is 11 inches by 17 inches. Ned Batchelder, Digital Equipment Corp., BatchelderN@Hannah.enet.DEC.com
jazz@gug.UUCP (Jeff Roberts) (03/27/90)
In article <9613@shlump.nac.dec.com>, batcheldern@hannah.enet.dec.com (Ned Batchelder) writes: > 11x17 and 11x17tray are references to paper that is 11 inches by 17 inches. Yeah, I knew that, but why are they in my postscript? They aren't defined as macros above, and I don't see them in the red book. Are they something new or what? -- Jeff Roberts Intergraph Corporation (UUCP) ...uunet!ingr!b11!maven!jazz (Internet) b11!maven!jazz@ingr.com
rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu (03/29/90)
In article <891@gug.UUCP>, jazz@gug.UUCP (Jeff Roberts) writes: > In article <9613@shlump.nac.dec.com>, batcheldern@hannah.enet.dec.com (Ned Batchelder) writes: >> 11x17 and 11x17tray are references to paper that is 11 inches by 17 inches. > > Yeah, I knew that, but why are they in my postscript? They aren't defined > as macros above, and I don't see them in the red book. Are they something new > or what? > Jeff, The red book documents the standard PostScript language. Specific implementations will generally contain many other operators, dictionaries, etc. peculiar to themselves, such as the serverdict, statusdict, $printerdict, etc. in a LaserWriter. Your 11x17tray is one of those -- it must exist on whatever machine the output was intended for. Richard Silverman arpa: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu Systems Engineer bitnet: rsilverman@wesleyan.bitnet AM Computer Products CIS: [72727,453] Southington, CT 06489
kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) (03/29/90)
In article <9613@shlump.nac.dec.com> batcheldern@hannah.enet.dec.com writes: >> ... >> lot of bug reports. When I look at the files, I see ctrl-D's and ctrl-L's >> throughout, which I've not seen until lately. Also, the keywords "11x17" >> and "11x17tray" occasionally pop up in statusdict definition. Can >someone fill >> me in on what may be happening here? Hmmm. You may be dealing with output generated for a particular printer, which is being sent to a printer of a different manufacture. I don't know how many printers have an 11 x 17 paper tray, and if they all use the same operators to set it up. I have run into exactly these names in the DataProducts printer (model 2265?); there may be others. -- Kevin O'Gorman ( kevin@kosman.UUCP, kevin%kosman.uucp@nrc.com ) voice: 805-984-8042 Vital Computer Systems, 5115 Beachcomber, Oxnard, CA 93035 Non-Disclaimer: my boss is me, and he stands behind everything I say.