rds95@leah.albany.edu (Robert Seals) (05/31/91)
Hello, Has anybody had difficulty with the PostScript driver that comes with Windows 3? We find that the code generally works, but leaves the printer in a wacko condition; the next job is scaled down in size and backwards...successive jobs get smaller and smaller. We 'print' to a file then transer to a unix host that uses lpr to spool to our ps printers. The stupid ^Ds at the beginning and end are tolerable, easy enough to get rid of, but this scaling problem really stinks. Our printer is a DEC LN03R, but I observe the same thing on my RS/6000's display postscript. Why is this, how do I fix it? thank you berry much, rob -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Unix has its weak points, but its file system is not one of them." -Chris Torek rob rob@dinner.asrc.albany.edu or rds95@leah.albany.edu I have no idea what the uucp path to me is.
vsarkela@csc.fi (06/03/91)
In article <1991May31.164205.28877@sarah.albany.edu>, rds95@leah.albany.edu (Robert Seals) writes: > Hello, > Has anybody had difficulty with the PostScript driver that > comes with Windows 3? We find that the code generally works, > but leaves the printer in a wacko condition; the next job > is scaled down in size and backwards...successive jobs get > smaller and smaller. > We 'print' to a file then transer to a unix host that uses > lpr to spool to our ps printers. > The stupid ^Ds at the beginning and end are tolerable, easy enough > to get rid of, but this scaling problem really stinks. > Our printer is a DEC LN03R, but I observe the same thing on > my RS/6000's display postscript. > > Why is this, how do I fix it? > The problem is, that postscript printer needs that control-d in order to reset after previous job. End-of-line is also important character and it is *NOT* newline (used by U*ix), but carriage return (13 decimal, 015 octal). We solved this problem with filter, which puts a carriage return before each new line and also after control-d. Hope this helps.... -- vesa sarkela vsarkela@csc.fi Finnish Pulp and Paper Research Institute