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From: adonis1@nwnexus.WA.COM (Adonis Corporation )
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Subject: Re: Lino problem
Keywords: Linotronic, FrameMaker
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Date: 19 Dec 90 19:34:59 GMT
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Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.; Seattle, WA
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In article <904@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) writes:
>Problem:
>
>I sent a four-page corporate newsletter to a Lino shop for film output. Two
>out of four pages came out fine. But the two pages that contained scanned
>images (300 dpi, 256 grayscale, HSD Scan-X Professional scanner) could not
>print out! The shop has a Lino L300 with RIP4. The first page was about 3MB,
>second page and third page about 40KB each, fourth page about 3MB. As you've
>probably guessed, the first and fourth pages contain the scanned images. I
>selected the Lino printer from the print panel, and then use the "Save"
>option to save everything to Postscript.
>
>The newsletter was created using FrameMaker 2.0b. Images (two) were scanned
>in using the HSD Scan-X Professional scanner at 300-dpi and 256 grayscale.
>The scanned images were saved in TIFF and imported into FrameMaker.
>The pages were "printed" into separate files (i.e. page1.ps, page2.ps, etc.).
>The files were then FTP'ed to my 386SX PC (ASCII transfer). The big files
>were compressed using PKZIP (LZH algorithm) in order to fit them onto several
>1.44MB floppies to take to the Lino shop.
>

I don't know much about tiff formats or how they are converted to ps, but I
do know that I've had a problem transferring eps files from my pc to
my NeXT.  I use kermit in either binary or text mode and the file is
unreadable on the NeXT.  My suspicion is that the eps file is comprised
of both text and binary information, the combination of which cannot
be handled by just text or binary transfer modes alone.  I also wonder
whether the eps format is different for the pc than for the NeXT (there
is some binary information at the very beginning of the file for
instance which I don't expect to be there on the NeXT).

At any rate, I wonder if you have a similar problem where text or binary
transfer modes just don't cut it.

I'd be interested in hearing the resolution to your problem!

-Doug Kent
Independent NeXT Developer

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In article <904@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) writes:
>Problem:
>
>I sent a four-page corporate newsletter to a Lino shop for film output. Two
>out of four pages came out fine. But the two pages that contained scanned
>images (300 dpi, 256 grayscale, HSD Scan-X Professional scanner) could not
>print out! The shop has a Lino L300 with RIP4. The first page was about 3MB,
>second page and third page about 40KB each, fourth page about 3MB. As you've
>probably guessed, the first and fourth pages contain the scanned images. I
>selected the Lino printer from the print panel, and then use the "Save"
>option to save everything to Postscript.
>
>The newsletter was created using FrameMaker 2.0b. Images (two) were scanned
>in using the HSD Scan-X Professional scanner at 300-dpi and 256 grayscale.
>The scanned images were saved in TIFF and imported into FrameMaker.
>The pages were "printed" into separate files (i.e. page1.ps, page2.ps, etc.).
>The files were then FTP'ed to my 386SX PC (ASCII transfer). The big files
>were compressed using PKZIP (LZH algorithm) in order to fit them onto several
>1.44MB floppies to take to the Lino shop.
>

I don't know much about tiff formats or how they are converted to ps, but I
do know that I've had a problem transferring eps files from my pc to
my NeXT.  I use kermit in either binary or text mode and the file is
unreadable on the NeXT.  My suspicion is that the eps file is comprised
of both text and binary information, the combination of which cannot
be handled by just text or binary transfer modes alone.  I also wonder
whether the eps format is different for the pc than for the NeXT (there
is some binary information at the very beginning of the file for
instance which I don't expect to be there on the NeXT).

At any rate, I wonder if you have a similar problem where text or binary
transfer modes just don't cut it.

I'd be interested in hearing the resolution to your problem!

-Doug Kent
Independent NeXT Developer