Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucsd!ames!amdahl!dgcad!dg-rtp!bigben!bigben!philip From: philip@beeblebrox.dle.dg.com (Philip Gladstone) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: How do you tell if colour is available Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 91 01:51:14 GMT Sender: usenet@dle.dg.com (Net News) Distribution: comp Organization: Data General, Development Lab Europe Lines: 16 Can anybody tell me how you tell if colour is available on the printer at print time? I want to be able to produce a postscript file that uses colour (if available) and various cross-hatchings if not. Note: doing 1 0 0 setrgbcolor currentrgbcolor doesn't tell you anything. On my monochrome system that returns '1 0 0'. Philip -- Philip Gladstone Dev Lab Europe, Data General, Cambridge, UK Listen three eyes, don't you try and outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.