NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/next/misc/23034

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From: [e-mail] (Ivo Welch)
Subject: Postscript Errors produced by ListFonts
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Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer
Keywords: DPS, ListFonts
Nntp-Posting-Host: risc.agsm.ucla.edu
Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:44:16 PST
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The output produced by ListFonts (from sonata) produces some odd errors when
printing pages 4 or 5 (but not others):
(DPSCLE=DPS client library error, ...=date)

... next Preview[209]: DPSCLE: PostScript program error, DPSContext 1c878
... next Preview[209]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: setshared ]%%
... next Preview[209]: DPSCLE: PostScript program error, DPSContext 1c878
... next Preview[209]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: scalefont ]%%
... next Preview[209]: DPSCLE: PostScript program error, DPSContext 1c878
... next Preview[209]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: setfont ]%%
... next Preview[209]: DPSCLE: PostScript program error, DPSContext 1c878
... next Preview[209]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: setshared ]%%
... next Preview[209]: DPSCLE: PostScript program error, DPSContext 1c878
... next Preview[209]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: scalefont ]%%
... next Preview[209]: DPSCLE: PostScript program error, DPSContext 1c878
... next Preview[209]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: setfont ]%%
... next Preview[209]: DPSCLE: PostScript program error, DPSContext 1c878
... next Preview[209]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: setshared ]%%
... next Preview[209]: DPSCLE: PostScript program error, DPSContext 1c878
... next Preview[209]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: scalefont ]%%
... next Preview[209]: DPSCLE: PostScript program error, DPSContext 1c878
... next Preview[209]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: setfont ]%%

The postscript file is exceedingly simple, consisting mostly of

54 738 moveto
/Helvetica findfont 9 scalefont setfont
(2. AGaramond-BoldItalic) show
198 738 moveto
/AGaramond-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont setfont
(The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog) show

in various forms. (The only item in the file I do not understand is a rectclip
command.) What's going on here?

/ivo welch