iphwk@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU (Bill Kinnersley) (03/04/90)
On several occasions I've had trouble getting PostScript output that
was created on other machines to print correctly on the NeXT.
The latest example of this was a graph that I drew on a Mac using
CricketDraw. The file was output as an Encapsulated PostScript
file and transferred to the NeXT. (Note that EPS files don't depend
on the Apple Laserprep header--that's not the issue.)
Tried printing on the NeXT in several ways. First was from the Previewer.
Also tried adding a showpage at the end and using lpr. In all cases
what happened was that everything printed correctly except for the two
or three Greek letters in the captions, which came from the Symbol font.
The other font used was Helvetica, which printed. The Symbol letters
were simply missing.
Symbol is listed in the %%DocumentFonts: header of the file, as it should be.
The file re-encodes both Helvetica and Symbol to fonts called
|______Helvetica and |______Symbol. I can get the Greek letters back by
editing |______Symbol back to just Symbol, but this is hardly the
proper solution. I suspect the problem has to do with the Display
PostScript use of FontDirectory and SharedFontDirectory, but nothing I've
tried along those lines has worked.
Has anyone else encountered this problem with CricketDraw? This same
type of problem occurs with other programs, as I've said. What's a
general guideline on how to fix it?
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--Bill Kinnersley
Physics Department Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717
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