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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
Summary: nec 890
Message-ID: <1511@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 28 Aug 90 01:05:25 GMT
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In article <7190@umd5.umd.edu>, zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) writes:
> In article <257@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us
> 
> For the record, the "flushfile"s were replaced with code that reads up to a
> known %-comment in level 6.0 (dict version 70) printing.  The problem Glenn

This technique of skipping headers and such, by watching for (%%%) in the
input stream fails on the NEC 890.  It will never see them.  Cassidy and
Greene's fonts don't work because of it.  You can send one down to the
printer, but it will happily eat anything else.  Apparently the %'s
are not captured by the interpreter.  It appears that comments are
just tossed away.  I posted some code to the net some months back that
demonstrated this, but I never saw any reply as to whether or not other
people saw the same thing.  I DO know that I spent a very LONG time converting
a bunch of C&G fonts to work properly on the NEC890.

Cheers
Woody


> 
> There are other gotchas that are still there.  Look for calls to
> "setsccinteractive", "waittimeout", and "setdefaulttimeouts".
> 
> Or get "macps" from sumex, run it on a command-K file, then diff it :-)
> 
> -- 
> Ben Cranston <zben@umd2.umd.edu>
> A determined iconoclast, it would be better to assume the opinion expressed
> above is the diametric OPPOSITE to that of the Warm and Fuzzy Network Group
> of Egregious State University...