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From: hess@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Caleb Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Gratuitous incompatibility with NeXT postscript printer?
Summary: You are not alone
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Date: 15 Feb 89 21:50:14 GMT
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	I recently began trying to use our NeXT printer.  So far I have 
found no problems with printing plain ASCII text files, but have been 
unable to use some PostScript programs which work on other printers.  For 
example, Doctor Laser (published recently in comp.lang.postscript) does 
not show any available fonts, although the rest of the page is printed (the 
benchmark test result is quite good).
	Also, Anders Ulfheden's showfont program (published recently in 
comp.lang.postscript) simply vanishes.  I have tried loading Adobe's error
handler, but it too apparently vanishes without effect, as no error pages
have ever been printed.
	Are these programs doing things that aren't legitimate, or is
the NeXT PostScript interpreter a bit wimpy?