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- From: rose@galtee.cs.wisc.edu (Scott Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: I too have unable to print the PS files
- Summary: edit the headers
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.211833.18718@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 21:18:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug10.180051.3140@titan.ksc.nasa.gov> <1992Aug20.063746.12690@microsoft.com>
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
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- In article <1992Aug20.063746.12690@microsoft.com> alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
-
- >These files were intended to be generic - at least as generic as postscript
- >is - but with the problems I've been seeing here, and on compuserve, we
- >can see that it's far from perfect - please note, at least some people
- >have been reporting succes here, so check with them and learn how they
- >succeeded
-
- I encountered two problems with these files that I had to solve before I could
- get more than a few pages at a time to print:
-
- 1. There is a ^D embedded in the first few bytes of each file. Don't know why
- it's there, much less why it is not always in the same place; do know that
- I got zero pages of output until I used an editor to remove it.
-
- 2. The docs use fonts that are not supported by the printers-- three flavors
- of them-- that are in my shop. For example, Helvetica Narrow and Helvetica
- Narrow Bold. I could get a number of pages of each doc to print before
- associated error messages from the printer caused lpd to abort the jobs.
- The fix? Edit the header of each file to redefine the macros to use other,
- supported fonts. For example, change /HNB to use Helvetica Bold.
-
- After doing these edits, the files printed for me without problem on all of my
- printers. Unless you count irate coworkers as a problem, that is.
-
- Hope this helps.
-