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From: cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: HELP! Bug in blue book ?
Message-ID: <3853@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 03:00:09 GMT
References: <1006@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Reply-To: cplai@daisy.com (C. P. Lai)
Organization: Daisy/Cadnetix
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In article <1006@manta.NOSC.MIL> grantk@manta.NOSC.MIL (Kelly J. Grant) writes:
>I'm not a serious hacker, but I have written
>a pretty good amount of PostScript code....and
>I swear I had three other people carefully look over
>what I did.  I was using the Circular Text, program
>10, page 167 of the blue book.  I checked every
>single line against the book, but got nothing but
>blank page.  

I remember this problem showed up in this newsgroup quite awhile back.
The error is in one of the space.  I believe it is () vs. ( ) that
causes the code to abort.  Try put in the space or take out the space,
I don't remember which.

Adobe was brain damaged to publish code listings in variable spaced font.