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From: jsh0447@DOMAIN_2.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Hojnicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: PostScript File from gmr2D
Message-ID: <1990May29.213440.24182@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 29 May 90 21:34:40 GMT
Reply-To: jshoj@csd.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Hojnicki)
Organization: NASA/LeRC Research Center
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Howdy folks,

Here at LeRC we are just venturing into writing some graphics software;
simple stuff, i.e. line plots and etc.  We are running AEGIS, SR 9.7.5
on a 4500.  Here is the problem.

We are trying to use the gm_$print_file call to create a PostScript
file so we can get hardcopies of what we see on the screen.  However,
that doesn't seem to be working right.

We can create a gm_$gmf file which creates a record format file, which
we can print, but only draws a single rectangle.  However, when we try to
create a PostScript file, we get nothing. - No file, nothing.

In another code, we were able to create a PostScipt file, but it again
came out as record format, not uasc, which seemed a bit unusual.  And we
never could get it to print right.

BTW, we are using "within GPR mode" if that matters.

The questions are:
	Does the PostScript file option work?
	Should it really generate a rec format file?
	Would it be easier to bag this and create our own PostScript
	files separately?

Any help / advice / experience / etc. would be very helpful. 
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