[9fans] Postcript

[9fans] Postcript

[northern snowfall]

Morning, everyone
	I've got a few documents to get written
up, and I'd like to use postscript. I have had
little experience in this area, however. What is
everyone's recommendation on generating Postscript
files from Word Docs?
	I tried generating some Postscript docs
on my Win9x with Xerox's XPPS. The resulting file
opened fine on Win9x with GhostView. On plan9,
though, the page request failed with "alarm".
	If anyone has any ideas or another
technique I could use, I'd appreciate it. Though,
the source file should always be a Word Doc.
That is really the only tool I can make decent
documents (with graphics) in.
Don

Re: [9fans] Postcript

[northern snowfall]

>     I tried generating some Postscript docs
> on my Win9x with Xerox's XPPS. The resulting file
> opened fine on Win9x with GhostView. On plan9,
> though, the page request failed with "alarm".

I suppose it should be noted that the same postscript
file works fine on SunOS 5.9 with the default viewer.
(Image Viewer Version 1.2.2)

Re: [9fans] Postcript

[Joel Salomon]

Try file/export and choose pswrite as the 'driver'. The windows postscript
printer drivers dont always mark page boundaries wellenough for
non-printer readers.

--Joel

Re: [9fans] Postcript

[Joel Salomon]

> Try file/export and choose pswrite as the 'driver'. The windows postscript
> printer drivers dont always mark page boundaries wellenough for
> non-printer readers.

on windows ghostscript, I meant

--Joel

Re: [9fans] Postcript

[Russ Cox]

The "alarm" message is not the point of that output.
The real problem is what gets printed before, namely
that Ghostscript has produced unexpected output.
Some old PostScript files have stuff in them to print
things like %%[Printing page 1]%% to standard output
(presumably goes to the LCD on the printer).  I haven't
seen that in recent Windows drivers though.

I usually install a driver for an Apple Laserwriter II NTX
(either numeric version, I think v47.0 or 52.3, but it's
been a while) and then print to file.

Russ

Re: [9fans] Postcript

[northern snowfall]

>
>
>The "alarm" message is not the point of that output.
>The real problem is what gets printed before, namely
>that Ghostscript has produced unexpected output.
>Some old PostScript files have stuff in them to print
>things like %%[Printing page 1]%% to standard output
>(presumably goes to the LCD on the printer).  I haven't
>seen that in recent Windows drivers though.
>
Yeah it spits out:
    Ghostscript error:
    %%%[ ProductName: AFPL Ghostscript ]%%%
    postnote 244: alarm

I'll give the driver you mentioned a shot.
Don

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Re: [9fans] Postcript

[Scott Schwartz]

| >The real problem is what gets printed before, namely
| >that Ghostscript has produced unexpected output.

Postscript previewers really shouldn't croak when that happens, though.
gv just reports that stuff to the user.

Re: [9fans] Postcript

[Russ Cox]

> | >The real problem is what gets printed before, namely
> | >that Ghostscript has produced unexpected output.
>
> Postscript previewers really shouldn't croak when that happens, though.
> gv just reports that stuff to the user.

True enough, but page currently can't tell interpreter
errors apart from postscript's standard output.  Usually
output is the interpreter barfing on bad postscript.
Maybe there's some way to silence the prints.

Re: [9fans] Postcript

[northern snowfall]

>
>
>I usually install a driver for an Apple Laserwriter II NTX
>(either numeric version, I think v47.0 or 52.3, but it's
>been a while) and then print to file.
>
Tried an Apple Laserwriter II NTX v51.8 straight off
the Win98 CD-ROM. It's working with no problems
on all target platforms.
Thanks Russ,
Don

>

Re: [9fans] Postcript

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

northern snowfall wrote:
> everyone's recommendation on generating Postscript
> files from Word Docs?

Create a printer, using Apple LaserWriter II NT on
FILE: port, and call it "PostScript to file".  Then
print to it like any other printer, and a dialogue
box will open up allowing you to specify a filename.