Xref: utzoo comp.os.vms:32489 comp.lang.postscript:6735 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!kth.se!cyklop.nada.kth.se!news From: grodan@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Mats G L|fdahl) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.lang.postscript Subject: My postscript printer doesn't end a job at end of file. Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 17:52:05 GMT Sender: news@nada.kth.se (Mr News) Distribution: comp Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 31 Hello, I have a problem that has to do with a postscript printer that is connected to a VAX/VMS. I don't know if the solution is a VMS solution or a postscript solution, so I post to both comp.os.vms and comp.lang.postscript. The problem is as follows: I have a postscript header file that, when appended to a text file, makes the text file print out with a nice header on my postscript printer. The problem is that when I send another postscript file to the printer, it doesn't understand that it is a new file, but continues to print it verbatim. How can I tell the printer that "This file ends here!! Close it (or whatever a postsript interpretor is supposed to do)!", or alternatively "Hey, this is a new file!! Close the one you might be working on!". Stated this way it sounds like I should add some postscript code to the end of my file, but I'm sure that there must be some way for an operating system to tell a printer where a job ends/begins. Please answer by email. I'll post a summary if any one else is interested. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mats L|fdahl Stockholm Observatory tel +46-8 16 44 75 Lofdahl@Astro.SU.SE ------------------------------------------------------------------------