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Subject: Re: Post 1.1
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Date: 19 Sep 90 02:12:57 GMT
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In article <42367@sequent.UUCP> cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman) writes:
>axjjb@acad2.anc.alaska.edu (BRYANT JOHN J) writes:
>< HEELPP....
>< 
>< I am trying to get some postscript printouts using Post 1.1 and I am having
>< severe difficulties...
>< 
>< The problem is when Post 1.1 reads a postscript file created
>< with excellence 2.0.  I do have postscript fonts. When I try
>< to print it I get several line feeds..that's all...
><  

>If anyone out there can help, I am having similar problems.  I have
>conman loaded, specified all the required assigns, placed some
>postscript fonts in the PSFonts: directory (I think that is what it was

Be sure that you have modifyed INIT.PS to indicated the proper directory
and A DEFAULT FONT.  There are notes in the file about which lines to 
delete/change to affect these paramters.  I was getting blank pages because
Pagestream specifyed fonts that did not come with POST, and I had not yet
set a default font.  

BTW, if you get BIND errors, as I did running a pagestream file, it is because
of (and take it easy on me here - I don't know postscript) strict type
checking on the command "BIND DEF".  Evidently, pagestream used plain "DEF"
and "BIND DEF" (abbreviated as BDEF) carelessly.  I noticed that "BIND DEF"
should follow procedure-like declarations, while "DEF" is for variable
assignments and aliases and such.  
I wrote a small program to go through and make appropriate changes.  
It is available on AMIGABASE BBS at (301) 760-2483.

-Larry Augsburger