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From: zoetrop@ucscb.ucsc.edu (Devan zoetrope MacFarlane)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PageMaker4 PostScript problems
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Date: 15 Jan 91 00:07:40 GMT
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Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing
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I recently generated some PostScript script from my copy of PageMaker4.0
(for the Mac). However, there now seems to be problems with the generated
code. Since I have little experience in this subject, I'll post the problem
as it was reported:

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OK, I've found out the problem with the special characters printing wrong.
When I looked at the PostScript yesterday, I noticed that the character was
being called up with an octal notation, ie, \322.  According to my book, that
prints out a nonexistant character.  But, I was getting a character hin the same
 posiion, less the upper place.  The vi editor will display a cI chset by doing 
a \xxx.  That fooled me uto change it and discovered that it was a single charac
ter, not 4 characters.

Your pagemaker is defining the missing characters and calling for them with
8-bit codes, which is against all of the rules (well some of them).  Unix
machines are 7-bit devices, which caused the top bit to be lopped off and
the character printed from the lower half of the character set.  I solved
it here by editing all of the 8-bit characters and replacing them with the
correct PostScript octal call (\xxx).  You need to talk with someone regarding
this problem.  Ask some net users if they know of a way around it, ie, someway
to tell Pagemaker to use octal instead of 8-bit characters.
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Any help you can offer me on this problem is greatly appreciated (Does anyone
have any *NIX utilities to do the change automatically? Or a util. for the Mac
to do the change?).

Thanks in advance.

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