rhp@gibbon.inel.gov (Bob Powell) (08/23/90)
Printing WordPerfect files from a PC on our NeXT is something we've wanted to
do but haven't had any success yet. What we had tried was saving the file in
WordPerfect as RTF, and loading it into Edit or WriteNow. No luck. Recently
I saw some posts here saying you should select a PostScript printer and print
to a file. I tried it, and when I lpr the file on the NeXT, a panel comes up
which says:
Couldn't print file because of malformed PostScript
Error: limitcheck; Offending Command:printerdevice
I am able to view the file in Preview, but printing it causes that same error
panel to pop up. Yap doesn't even image the file, it just returns an unknown
error on an unknown line. Thanks a lot. I tried hacking the PostScript, but
I don't know enough about it. I tried selecting different printers, and they
all gave the same result. I tried PostScript, LaserWriter IIntx, and another
obvious PostScript printer. Nada. So I am asking those of you who have done
this before to please help us out and let us know what the trick is. Oh, and
if it matters, we're using WordPerfect 5.1, and NextStep 1.0.
Thank you very much,
Bob "Right Flush" Powell
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purposes.glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) (08/25/90)
In article <1990Aug23.163721.24499@inel.gov> rhp@gibbon.inel.gov (Bob Powell) writes: > Couldn't print file because of malformed PostScript > Error: limitcheck; Offending Command:printerdevice Try putting the following lines of PostScript somewhere in the document after the first few lines of comments: /letter { } def /legal { } def /note { } def I think that may cure your problem. /Glenn -- Glenn Reid PostScript/NeXT consultant glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us Independent Software Developer ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785