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Subject: Re: Gratuitous incompatibility with NeXT postscript printer?
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Date: 15 Feb 89 23:43:19 GMT
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In article <17633@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> hess@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Caleb Hess)
writes:
>
>       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?


The problem here is that Adobe changed where fonts are stored for
Display PostScript.  (The NeXT machine uses Display PostScript.)  I believe
if you change the string FontDirectory to SharedFontDirectory throughout
those programs, and try it again, it will work better.  For more information,
get the documentation on Display PostScript from Adobe.

- Terry Weissman        weissman@wsl.dec.com    ...!decwrl!weissman