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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Getting Postscript output printed correctly
Summary: Start with correct PostScript!
Message-ID: <1714@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 13 Jun 91 08:37:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: toaster.1714
References: <676783283@macbeth.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <676783283@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu
	(Henry Greenside) writes:
>Several times, I have tried to print out .ps files from
>public (ftp) sources (e.g., the apE documentation) on a
>NeXtstation with a NeXT laserprinter using the 'lpr'
>utility. The output is 90% ok but has numerous annoying
>errors, e.g., the letters "fl" appear as an e with an
>umlaut, and various italicized words appear inside the
>fractions 1/4 and 1/2.
>
>Clearly some error in translation is occurring. Does
>anyone know how to fix this?

I don't think it's fixable (i.e. sounds like the output
of a defective translator).

Bitch at OSC.  They charge money for apE, they should
deliver something that works.

>Another related question: the pages are printed in
>numerical order by the laser printer, which is NOT what
>I want. Instead, the printer should print output in
>REVERSE numerical order so that the output is already
>sorted correctly. Is there someway to indicate this
>with lpr?

NeXT's printing software can page-reverse ->Conforming<-
PostScript.  If you have something that doesn't adhere to
Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions, it can only
be printed "top to bottom."  It really sounds like you
got ahold of some bad PostScript.  I don't think you're
doing anything wrong.

					-=EPS=-