Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!dali!rpi!uupsi!sunic!sics.se!backlund From: backlund@sics.se (Bj|rn Backlund) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Buzzing Graphic Bombs PS Printer Keywords: postscript, stack Message-ID: <1990May28.183907.24656@sics.se> Date: 28 May 90 18:39:07 GMT References: <1296@cgh.UUCP> Sender: news@sics.se Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista Lines: 46 paul@cgh (Paul Homchick) writes: >It is possible for the NeXT to generate postscript that other >postscript devices cannot deal with. >I recently asked the mail server at purdue for issue 6 of the BuzzNUG >newsletter (now the NeXT Users' Journal). Since I have a copy of >FrameMaker, I got the .frame version. I have a NeXT computer, but do >not have one of their printers. When I tried to print the document on >my QMS PS-800II printer, I couldn't get beyond page 27. A little >experimentation showed that I couldn't print page 27, and a bit more >investigation showed that I couldn't print the "by AAAndrew Stone" >graphic that is on that page. >When I installed the Adobe ehandler.ps file in the printer to get some >debugging info, I found that this graphic overflows the stack. I then >took the postscript output over to another system, where I found the >same problem when trying to print it on a NEC LC-890 printer. >Clearly, since Preview and other incarnations of the Window Server are >able to deal with this, the problem is in the other devices, and not >the NeXT. However, if you need a NeXT to print out NeXT-generated >files, you are missing out on some of the portability that postscript >promises. >Has anyone else duplicated this problem, and does anyone have any >suggestions for dealing with it? >Thanks! >--- >Paul Homchick :UUCP {rutgers | uunet} !cbmvax!cgh!paul >Chimitt Gilman Homchick, Inc. :Internet cgh!paul@dsi.com >259 Radnor-Chester Rd, Suite 140 :MCI PHOMCHICK >Radnor, PA 19087-5299 :GEnie HOMCHICK We've noticed the same problem. We took the Buzzings no. 6 (the .ps version) from one of the archives but we can only print the first 27 pages. We have only tried Apple Laserwriters. Erica, could you make a new version of the issue in question without the graphics that bombs the printers ? ---BjornB Swedish Institute of Computer Science backlund@sics.se Box 1263 64 28 Kista, Sweden