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- From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro)
- Subject: Re: psfix missing and needed to fix Mma ps
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- References: <1992Dec19.194250.26583@sophia.smith.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 04:16:14 GMT
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- In <1992Dec19.194250.26583@sophia.smith.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
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- >I need psfix to "fix" the postscript files output by Mathematica on
- >a NeXT. My Mma/NeXT manual tells me it was distributed with Mma,
- >but it (and related ps programs) are nowhere to be found on my NeXT.
- >Any advice would be appreciated. Since psfix is probably just a
- >short shell script, maybe someone can mail it to me? Thanks!
-
- I seriously doubt that you are missing psfix, it's simply that it's
- in an unusual path, and in what even WRI admits is probably a bug, it's
- not in the path.
-
- Open up Mathematica.app and look in the subdirectory /Kernel/Display and
- psfix should be there. Mma itself can access it, for it uses PSfix when
- you do the "convert pasteboard" approach to pasting or saving an individual
- graphic, or if you save a notebook to a PS file from the print panel (try
- one of these to see if you get a valid file, i..e select a graphic, copy
- it, hit "convert pasteboard" (command-m) and then the EPS option and save
- to file option, and you shoudl end up with a valid EPS file.
-
- The best thing to do to make psfix available on a more general basis is
- to simply copy if from Mathematica.app/Kernel/Display to /usr/local/bin
- or somehwere else in the path (what version of Mma do you have? when I
- discussed this with WRI right after 2.0 came out they told me it woudl be
- fixed in 2.1?). Alternatively you could make a symbolic link, but the file
- is so small (~50 Kb) that I'd recommend a straight copy.
-
- If you ARE really missing psfix then I would contact WRI and get an
- entirely new version of Mma, since yours is obviously defective and
- who knows what else is wrong.
-
- Hope this is Helpful --- Tom
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