dz@lime.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle) (07/25/89)
I've been trying to print some raw postscript, and I can't quite do it right. Anybody know what to do? There are some PostScript files out there that will not display on the standard previewer, but need YAP (Yet Another Previewer) to be seen. I assume this is from lack of a bounding box or something like that. When these files are printed, all that is shown is the poscript source. I know this is a postscript printer, and others I have met ONLY take postscript files to print, and do not translate to ordinary text, so I assume the ENSCRIPT routines are taking the text and making it text. Of course, the ideal thing to do is to take the result of some Postscript hack or another an paste it right into a WriteNow or Draw document, but that doesn't work, either (Draw complains about "no bounding box"). Does anybody know how to get the results of postscript into a WriteNow document? Thanks in advance -Dan
tim@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Timothy Jones) (07/25/89)
Well, sometimes simply adding a %! to the beginning of the file will allow it to be printed. With other files, including most of the examples in /NextLibrary/Examples/PostScript, I have encountered the same problem (e.g. not being able to print at all). I've also noticed that many files (valid postscript) won't display under preview (thus I think it's probably less than perfect). I find YAP to be much more reliable, the only problem is that it can't print. ****************************************************************************** * Timothy Jones * * Columbia University Center for Computing Activities * * Instructional Computing Consulting Group * * * * ARPANET: tim@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu * * BITNET: tim@cunixc, timus@cuvmb * * USENET: ...!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!tim * ******************************************************************************
greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) (07/27/89)
In article <2114@hub.UUCP> dz@cornu.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle) writes: >I've been trying to print some raw postscript, and I can't quite >do it right. Anybody know what to do? From the symptoms you describe (it lists the PostScript code) I think all you need to do is to add the two characters '%!' to the beginning of the file (on a line by themselves). The "lpr" command tries to simulate the old line-printer function of listing the file unless the magic number at the beginning is %! to indicate executable PostScript. It actually passes the file through a filter much like "enscript" to make this happen. Give it a try. Glenn Reid Adobe Systems