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- How to fix up Macintosh LaserWriter 6.0-generated ps files for public
- consumption. (This has already been done to the xvdocs.ps and xvtitle.ps
- files.)
-
- --jhb 4/24/92
-
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-
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1992 22:44 PDT
- From: WAMPLER@daq.semi.harris.com (Kurt Wampler)
- To: bradley@grip.cis.upenn.edu
- Subject: Re: xv 2.0 PostScript docs
-
- John -
-
- You can ignore the previous message I sent to you 5 or 6 hours ago. After
- continuing to hack on the Mac-generated PostScript, I finally nursed it into
- printing on our SPARCprinter. The tweaks required to make it print
- correctly on the SPARCprinter did not exactly match the tweaks described in
- your standard response, nor did they match any of the other helpful advice
- posted in alt.graphics.pixutils over the past few days.
-
- - I ran with the original prologue.
- - I did the 8-bit filtering.
- - I wrapped all long source lines at 255 bytes.
- - I eliminated all font downloads, (bounded by "%%BeginFont" and "%%EndFont"
- comments, including the "bu fc" line after the "%%EndFont".
- - I changed the "patterncachesize patterncachelimit div" to "1 1 div" in
- the patternpath macro.
-
- It was worth the effort -- the documentation is well structured and easy to
- read. My hat's off -- both the documentation and the xv program itself are
- excellent work. (Wish I could say the same about the PostScript generated
- on your Mac. Rarely have I seen such ill-structured PostScript.)
-
- Anyway, thanks for your original help, and feel free to pass any of the above
- tweaks on to other people trying to get the documentation to print.
-
- Kurt Wampler
- Harris Semiconductor
- 408-996-5426
-