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From: cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Post 1.1 (IT WORKS!  YEAH!)
Keywords: finally working postscript interpreter yippee
Message-ID: <42633@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 90 19:00:08 GMT
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Beaverton, OR
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For the last several months I have been trying (rather unsuccesfully)
to get Post 1.1 to work on my 2500.  I have had SEVERAL kind offers of
assistance, as well as many suggestions and words of advice.
Unfortunately, none of these people were able to solve my problem.
Until yesterday.

Many thanks to Georg Magschok (S_MAGSCHOK@IRAVCL.IRA.UKA.DE), who
advised me (actually the net at large) to double-check the pagesize for
the printer.  I don't know how I managed to screw it up, but I did.
Now Post is running very well.

However, I am still having a few problems.  Certain font files don't
work (I am running on a 5MB machine, so memory should not be the
problem).  I have found several fonts on BBS's, all of which appear (to
my limited postscript intelligence) to be valid fonts, but some just do
nothing.  By that I mean that I can load the font with no errors, or
use it in a document, but when I attempt to print the document, after
'Running...' for between 45 seconds and a minute, Post just goes back to
an idle state.  No errors, no output, no nothing.

Lastly, I have noticed that even some of the sample files included
with Post don't print.  One gives a dictfull error (I believe it was
escher.ps), but I can't remember the specific errors the others gave.

Any ideas as to what I'm overlooking?  I thought about tweaking the
memory parameters, but it seems that that should not be a problem on
such small files (and multipage text files print with no problem).

Thanks in advance.

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