Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!venera.isi.edu!cew From: cew@venera.isi.edu (Craig E. Ward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Page Stream - > Postscript & more Summary: Postscript from PageStream Keywords: Postscript, PageStream, Fleet Street V2 Message-ID: <7423@venera.isi.edu> Date: 3 Feb 89 20:13:40 GMT References: <1673@ssc.UUCP> <874@nosc.NOSC.MIL> Reply-To: cew@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Craig E. Ward) Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California Lines: 43 I was able to load the one of the font sample documents into Pagestream v1.5 and write the file out to disk in Postscript. I uploaded the (rather large file) and printed it on an Apple LaserWriter. Most of it looked okay. I don't know much about fonts but most of them looked okay. The postscript file generated had to be modified after uploading. The postscript standard states that all postscript files start with a %!, usually followed by the postscript version number. Pagestream (and Publishing Partner for that matter) fail to do this. I find a at the begining of the file. Easy to fix but annoying. (No, KERMIT does not add this; there are no comments at the beginning of the file.) I have a more general question. Is pagestream downloading fonts to the laser printer? I had no end of grief trying to print a postscript file from First Publisher (IBM PC & clones). The local postscript wizard said they were downloading fonts and that was why it took forever (the file would timeout over the network connection). Publishing Partner files did not seem to do that. Has SoftLogic changed things? Sure, a lot of home desktop publishing might be done on low end laser writers, but they should not assume a stupid printer. It should at least be configurable or they should have a separate utility to download the desired font set. While on the subject of desktop publishing, I've taken Michtron up on their offer to send owners of other dps's a copy of Fleet Street v2 for $50.00 plus S/H (ST World 1/89). Before I did it, however, I called and asked about postscript to files. The answer was that could write to files. (And it's not copy protected this time -- reason I didn't buy the first release.) Craig -- ==================================================================== ARPA: cew@venera.isi.edu PHONE: (213)822-1511 ext. 111 USPS: USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1100 Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Slogan: "nemo me impune lacessit" ====================================================================