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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript printing small and mirrorimaged!!
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.052910.14008@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 7 Dec 90 05:29:10 GMT
References: <7699@hub.ucsb.edu>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology
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>We have one postscript printer here which gets print jobs from all over a
>little network.  (Mostly DOS machines)  If someone prints a graphics image
>from a DOS program named "CorelDraw" to the printer and then someone sends
>a normal text file (which gets converted to postscript via the transcript
>program "pstext", but I've used "enscript" also with the same results), the
>CorelDraw image comes out just fine but the text file gets printed in a
>little tiny font and in mirror image fashion!

Yes, this happens when one job changes the transformation matrix and
then the next job follows without an intervening control-d (EOJ).

>Has anyone seen this before?  Is there some command that I can put in the
>header of all jobs going to the printer which would fix this?  If someone
>can give me hint of what's happening (what CorelDraw is not resetting
>correctly), I can call them and turn in a bug report.

Make sure all your jobs are properly terminated by control-d. Ideally
the spooling software should append this, but in PC environments
programs tack on a control-d at the end.