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- Document for postsplit - v1.05
- Notice - I accept no liability for this program, this program is public domain.
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- Pagestream 2.2 produces monocrome Postscript output or complex colour
- Postscript files. The colour Postscript files cannot be handled by most
- interpreters so the file has to be split into separate files for sending to
- multipass printing devices.
- With the program postsplit in its present form, its possible to automaticaly
- split the file into its separate pages/colour separations.
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- The switch anl - analyse produces a file with a .anl extension ie:-
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- postsplit filename anl
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- !PS-Adobe-2.0
- "test.pgs, Page #1, Process Cyan)
- !PS-AdobeFont-1.0: Shelley-AllegroScript 001.001
- "test.pgs, Page #1, Process Magenta)
- "test.pgs, Page #1, Process Yellow)
- "test.pgs, Page #1, Process Black)
- "test.pgs, Page #2, Process Cyan)
- !PS-AdobeFont-1.0: MachiavelliBld 001.000
- "test.pgs, Page #2, Process Magenta)
- "test.pgs, Page #2, Process Yellow)
- "test.pgs, Page #2, Process Black)
- "test.pgs, Page #2, Spot Colour Silver:[35.00
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- So you now know what is in your postscript file, save this information
- you will need it later. Notice that the file included font is in the
- cyan colour area. This means that if you want the font to print in
- black you will have to move it to the black area manualy in this version.
- (I'm working on automatically moving it).
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- OK say we want to print page1 yellow!
- Use the switch postsplit filename yellow this will start to generate another
- file suffixed .yellow and then ask you for a page number. As you see from
- the data yellow page1 is the third page, so enter 3.
- Your now asked for the maximum page, so as there are 9 enter 9.
- The output file in this version has a minor bug. About five lines up
- from the bottom of the file the words End Page have two cr's after them
- this should not matter.
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- The program will detect adobe included fonts only!
- The switch fnt will extract from the begining of the first adobe font to
- the end of the file and place the information in a file with the extension
- .fnt ie.
- postsplit filename.ps.cyan fnt You still have to insert it in the black file
- manualy, it doesn't matter if you erase the font information from the cyan
- file or not. Also the larger the file you have the more time the program will
- take to process.
- Although Pagestream Postscript file print on Postscript printers with no
- problems, it can be quite difficult to setup a imagesetter to generate
- O/P for a printing press. The switch eps will convert the Postscript file
- into an encapsulated file which may be inserted into Quark Express or
- Ventura Publisher at a print buro. The Postscript file for converting must be
- only one page (can still be full colour plus spots), and must not include
- crop or registration marks. These marks are put in by the 'Host Process'.
- To test to see if this has worked you may import the EPSF file back into
- itself or load it into Prodraw, Propage etc to test it.
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- !PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
- "test.pgs, Page #1, Process Cyan)
- !PS-AdobeFont-1.0: Shelley-AllegroScript 001.001
- "test.pgs, Page #1, Process Magenta)
- "test.pgs, Page #1, Process Yellow)
- "test.pgs, Page #1, Process Black)
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- The above anl file was generated from an encapsulated colour file with one
- font in it, notice the first line states its encapsulated (unlike the first
- example) and the font is in the cyan area of page 1. If the page is inserted
- into another application, it will display as either a gray box or an empty
- box with a cross in it; depending on the application (unless you are using
- Postscript display language!).
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- You must ensure if you are using separated colour files, that they are input
- at the same size and to the same page co-ordinates, and that the application
- generates crop and registration marks. The output must be in Postscript.
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- If you find this program useful please let me know!
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- I Parker
- 7 Hawthorn Way
- Macclesfield
- Cheshire SK10 2DA
- England
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