Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uflorida!bikini!bb From: bb@sandbar.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Is this a PostScript file? Message-ID: Date: 5 Jan 91 07:43:18 GMT References: <2548@clyde.concordia.ca> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Organization: /cis/lightning0/bb/.organization Lines: 34 In-reply-to: gpkatch@maxwell.Concordia.CA's message of 4 Jan 91 21:58:00 GMT In article <2548@clyde.concordia.ca> gpkatch@maxwell.Concordia.CA (Gary Katch) writes: > The text below was produced by MicroSoft Works word processor, with > chosen printer Apple Laserwriter II with down-loadable fonts. The file > was printed to disk on the PC, and then uploaded to the UNIX box at > work. The file will not print on the Laserwriter, nor will ULTRIX's > previewer understand it. I looked at a book on PostScript and cannot > find any commands like the ones in the file. This file illustrates what some consider to be a deplorable style of application-writing. The application has assumed that its own personal dictionary defining each of these operators has already been downloaded to the printer, and made resident. The deplorable part is that, as we have found running 5 or 10 Postscript-speaking applications on 100 Suns, each package wants its own dictionary loaded resident in the printer. Not only does this fill up the memory of the printer and cause name conflicts, but then the laserprinter password has to be embedded in n different applications. Yuck. You should be able to find some sort of switch or setup toggle on Works that will make it dump the prologue defining these operators at the head of the file. You might have to fool Works into thinking that each printout is the first made to the printer since a powerup (hence the prologue is needed to be downloaded). -- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Bartholomew UUCP: ...gatech!uflorida!mathlab.math.ufl.edu!bb University of Florida Internet: bb@math.ufl.edu