Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!annapurna!kennedy From: kennedy@annapurna.ee.umn.edu (Joel Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: WordPerfect and Postscript Message-ID: <1991May15.165019.18569@cs.umn.edu> Date: 15 May 91 16:50:19 GMT References: <1991May14.183903.24551@tcom.stc.co.uk> <1991May15.142744.21751@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@cs.umn.edu (News administrator) Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, EE dept. Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: annapurna.ee.umn.edu cjwein@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Chris J. Wein) writes: >In article fechuny@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (felix chung yau) writes: >> >> Hello. I am having some problems printing a postscript file and was >>wondering if anyone could help me. >> The problem is this: I generate a ps file in wordperfect (dos version) >>by writing to disk. Then I upload the ps file to a unix (sparc) machine which >>has an apple laserwriter hook up to it. I issue the print command and all I I had very similar sounding problems when I first upgraded to v5.1. After very much frustration I found that the problem went away if I did the file transfer in binary mode. I suspect that the new version of WordPerfect make postscript lines that are to long and get truncated in the transfer. Good luck. Joel Kennedy kennedy@ee.umn.edu