PostScript

Hi All,I am trying to make a utility software in foxpro that could print post script file on:-1) Post script printer2) Non Post Script printerOperating System Windows 95 & aboveHelp is requested from all the community membersReagardsHarsh

I am having ps files that are havings 4 to 8  pages per file. Each page may contain just 5-6 lines and therefore though the content in total is not too much but there is unnecessay paper wastage.Is it possible to make some changes in code inside ps files throgh notepad so that the content may be restricted to lesser number of pages. I am having programing skill in vfp,need guidance that what changes i need to do in ps script and where.my sample ps file can be downloaded from https://www.dropbox.com/s/l9n3juzltlajki2/1010568351.psCode is also replicated here%!PS-Adobe-3.0%Creator: iECCM%Version: 0.1%%Pages: 4/d{def}bind def/b{bind d}bind d/X1 0 d/Y1 0 d/SG{setgray}b/g{gsave}b/l1{rlineto}b/m{moveto}b/n{newpath}b/o{closepath}b/r{lineto}b/s{show}b/c{clip}b/z{stroke}b/A{n arc}b/B{0 SG}b/C1{n m curveto}b/D 0 d/E{0.78 SG}b/F{findfont exch scalefont setfont}b/G{grestore}b/H1{n 0 5 Y1 {0 exch m X1 0 l1} for z}b/J{rectclip}b/K{0.79 SG}b/L{n m r z}b/M{0 0 m}b/N{0.80 SG}b/O{rotate}b/P{setline

hello, I am just a new bie in postscript, Could any one let me know, what kind of job instructions we can pass with PS.Does it can handle multi files  like print Chapter1 > Tab sheet >Chapter 2> Tab Sheet >Chapter 3Example : no. of Copies, duplex,Collate, Single.Double sided, Tab devider, Picking one sheet from specified tray at specified range , punch, clip etc...Please list out for the sake of learners if you can.

Can a printer that supports PostScript 3 and PDF direct, support the use of JDF files?  I would like to send a JDF file to perform such tasks as tray selection, number of copies or duplexing.  I am using Lexmark C736 and C935.  If they do support this functionality, is it just a matter of sending the xml and then the pdf ?Thanks,

I have a PS file generated from a software system. It has characters è and é which are converted into the \350 and \351.When I use ps2pdf to convert this ps file into pdf I get Ł and Ø instead.the file is encoded in ISO8859-15 encoding.Actual Name : Société Financière PS file : Soci\351t\351 Financi\350re PDF file : SociØtØ FinanciŁre Follwoing is the PS code. Please help me get the right characters on the pdf.%!PS-Adobe-3.0%%Title: stdout%%Creator: idttex 8.00.02.01 Copyright (c) 2007 Intec Telecom Systems PLC%%CreationDate: Thu 22 Nov 2012 05:41:33 AM UTC%%Pages: (atend)%%PageOrder: Ascend%%Orientation: Landscape%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 791%%DocumentMedia: letter 612 791 0 () ()%%DocumentNeededResources: font Courier Helvetica-Bold Helvetica%%EndComments%%BeginProlog%%BeginResource: procset TextCommands/idttexdict 209 dict defidttexdict begin/rna 0 def/a{/rna exch def}bind def/df{exch findfont exch scalefont setfont}bind def/X{/xc exch def}bind def/R{xc add /xc exch def}bind def/L{x

When I upgraded to CS5 and CS6 I was informed that the postscript files I give to our mailing programmer from InDesign do not work (nostringval error). As a work around I have been saving my files down to CS4 and generating the postscript from there and it works normally. The programmer is using Xerox FreeFlow VI Design Pro 10.0. I have checked all my settings and steps for creating the postscript and I am doing it the same way in all three versions of InDesign. Is there a change in the postscript language from v4 to 5 or 6 that would create the nostringval error?Thank you

hi..am trying to set the page size of the document while printing using the following PostScript file mark/NoCancel      true/OutputFile (%printer%Test)/OutputDevice /mswinpr2/UserSetting<</DocumentName (Data)>>(mswinpr2) finddeviceputdeviceprops<</PageSize[595 842]>>setpagedevicesetdevicebut it always give page as letter in outputplease help me out in the process of printing a file to a desired page size with help of PostScript and gswin32c.exe

Apologies for asking what is probably a simple question. I am knew to the Postscript world.I will soon be working on a project involving the installation of 2000+ Postscript printers to replace oldmatrix devices that use preprinted stationary.I need to know two things:1. How do I store a form, produced by a Postscript generator package, into the printer memory / disk.     For example - an invoice or a despatch note2. How do I invoke that form so that is acts as an overlay to the data that is produced by my application.     i.e. What preamble needs to be written to effectively merge the data with the document.     I have done this before using PCL and a simple series of escape sequences but cannot work out how     to do this in the Postscript world.

Any one have PostScript Multi line Justify and centre command.I have single line justify command ,syntax:SpaceMod               (LineWidth – StringWidth)          =           ----------------               SpacesLeftMargin Y movetoSpaceMod 0 32 (Line of text here) widthshowIf u got PostScript Multi line Justify and centre command Reply as soon as possible.Advance Thanks,Jai

I know there are many resources available for PS & PDF material.  But, are there any providers of PS language courses and PDF language courses?  Preferably in the UK but I'd be interested in finding training providers for this topic.Thanks

I am working on a Postscript program that uses EPS files that exist on our printers.  Right now, if the EPS does not exist the printer throws an error.  I would like to see the form print even if the EPS does not exist.The EPS that I am checking is a logo that changes depending on internal conditions.  We have about 300 EPS's on the printer, but some times one is missed.  The EPS is always in the format ####.EPS (4105.EPS for example).I am calling the eps As follows:%!/ExtraLogo{    420 711 translate  (6661.EPS) run  -420 -711 translate} def%%....  OTHER STUFFExtraLogoshowpageI would like to include an If statement such as if ####.EPS exists, print, else do nothing..Is there any way that this can be done?ThanksEric

Hi All,I am looking for memory heavy PostScript page. If such example is not easy to refer to is there a easy way to create a one where a page would take large amount of space in memory to process a page.Appreciate any help.Thanks in advanceRubu

I think the question pretty much says it. I need to be able to save the x,y position of where I'm at, put in some other strings, and then return to the saved position in order to overprint some strings.

I am printing out long documents, some over 100 pages.  I have an in-house application where I generate the PS file based on data we have.  The user chooses criteria and then we get a print out.  If the document is smaller then it prints the entire document fine.  If I get over a certain number of pages, 35-40 maybe, printing consistently stops in the same spot.  If I modify the ps file to be shorter, then the file prints fine.  If I do a simple loop to print 100 pages it prints fine.  Sometimes I get an offending command, which looks like it cut off part of the command, like 'how' instead of 'show'.  If I modify my program to send 10 page groups instead of all at once then it prints fine.  It seems like it's filling a buffer or something first?  Any ideas?  Here's a link to the file.  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2430447/SPL0333842

Hi,I am having difficulty of printing from freehand.The error says Postscript error 'nostringval'.Printing from other programs work fine, only problem with adobe freehand.Did some research, it can be due to the damaged fonts or lack of memory, but i JUST reformatted my pc back to the factory default, which is now as good as the new one.Please advise how to solve it.Thanks!!

I need to automate the activation of "Extend Features in Adobe Reader..." for PostScript jobs that distill into PDF forms.Is there a pdfmark command I could add, or some other method that will do this?

Does anyone know how to use FileAttachment property to attach a file in postscript please? eg. to add document properties you would use:[ /Title (Your Document Title Here)/Author (Your Name Here)/Subject (Your Subject Here)/Keywords (any keywords you like)/Creator (Adobe Pdf)/Custom (Custom Contents)/AndSoOn (And so on ...)/AndSoForth (And so forth ...)/DOCINFO pdfmark

Hello!!Sorry for my bad English. I am going to try not to make too much error .My problem is easy, but answer not.I would like to automatise operation to invert a page on two of the PDF. I explains. I've lot of PDF of 2, 4, 6 ,8 ... pages. For example for a PDF contains 2 pages: 1,2 > 2,1For example for a PDF contains 8 pages: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 > 2,1,4,3,6,5,8,7I've no idea with adobe pro, but with Ghostscript et Psutils it's possible, i've tried to create:pdf2ps c:\chemin\fichier_original.pdf c:\chemin\fichier_moins_original.pspstops -pa4 2:0,1U(21cm,29.7cm) c:\chemin\fichier_moins_original.ps c:\chemin\fichier_plus_tourner.psps2pdf c:\chemin\fichier_plus_tourner.ps c:\chemin\fichier_original_tourner.pdfI thinks it's possible to create same code with postscript on adobe but i don't know how to do.If anyone would like to help me..Thanks for your answer.Best regards all.

Dear all,We are creating check box in pdf file using pdfmark [via postscript to pdf conversion]We placed the below tag into the postscript and then created the pdf file.The check box working in acrobat professional but not working in adobe reader even after enabling the extend features in Adobe Reader.[ /Rect [6254 9972 6814 9480]/T (CB4)/FT /Btn /F 4 /H /O/BS << /W 1 /S /S >> /DA (/ZaDb 10 Tf 1 0 0 rg)/Subtype /Widget/ANN pdfmarkPlease help me on this to solve the issue.Regards,jkrishnanvenkat

I am trying to rotate an object and its hyperlink boundary together. I use a command like rotate 10 but it only works on the object, not its boundary.

Hi - This is what i am doing. I open an eps file in illustrator and do a save as eps again (reason for doing this is the original eps when edited contains lot of invalid DSC header info which the HP printer fails to understand). The EPS is saved with the following settings in adobe illustrator CS5:EPS Options:Version = Illustrator 3 EPSPreview = NoneOptions = Checked only "Compatible Gradient and Gradient Mesh Printing"Adobe PostScript = LanguageLevel2After doing this i confirmed the eps file header info is all valid. The problem iam facing is when this EPS is used to be printed by the printer, the printer prints the image perfectly fine on the coordinate settings where i intend, BUT after the image has been printed, blank space almost equal to a blank page appears and then the remaining text is printed. I tried resizing the image, selecting the art box size equal to the image size but none of it worked. The setting mentioned above is required for the PS HP printer. Dont know from wher

Hi,I've done a fair bit of work generating postscript from an OpenVMS COBOL system in the past, and while not an expert, have usually managed to produce something that works. This time I'm failing. Can anyone assist.The problem: I have a document which has to print from 2 trays.Tray 1: (Headed paper with blank background)Tray 2: (Special paper with writing on the back)Up to now it has been a simple simplex job, printing one page on headed paper and then page 2 (and more) on the special paper<< /MediaPosition 0 >> setpagedevice(PAGE 1) showshowpage<< /MediaPosition 1 >> setpagedevice(PAGE 2) showshowpageI have to add a sheet printed on both sides between page 1 and page 2  (A) on the headed side and (B) on the blank reverse.I tried<< /MediaPosition 0 >> setpagedevice(PAGE 1) showshowpage<< /MediaPosition 0 /Duplex true >> setpage(PAGE A) showshowpage(PAGE B) showshowpage<< /MediaPosition 1 /Duplex false>> setpagedevice(PAG

This is a conversation carried over from this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/900119?tstart=0.I am printing a postscript logo image on a certificate that is generated by a C program.  When I call the image in the code, the image will print on a separate page, rather than embed within the certificate.  I've removed the showpage command from the end of the image code, but that just prevented the image from being printed altogether.  I believe what I need is a PostScript command or a string of commands that will print the image without sending a page eject command to the printer.Does anyone know how this might be accomplished?

Hi I generate the color PS using the color images as given below. I am using the DCTDecode filter so that I can embed the JPEG images to the postscript. Now I get the correct postscript with the color image. If I want to render the postscript as Gray scale,what additional changes I need to do? I tried with ProcessColorModel but no success.Thanks in advance./RawData currentfile /ASCII85Decode filter def/Data RawData << >> /DCTDecode filter def18.0 504.0 translate360.0 270.0 scale/DeviceRGB setcolorspace{ << /ImageType 1     /Width 800     /Height 600     /ImageMatrix [ 800 0 0 -600 0 600 ]     /DataSource Data     /BitsPerComponent 8     /Decode [0 1 0 1 0 1]  >> image  Data closefile  RawData flushfile  grestore  showpage} execs4IA0!"_al8O`[\!<<*#!!*'"s4[N@!!ic5#6k>;#6tJ?#m^kH'FbHY$Odmc'+Yct)BU"@)B9_>,VCGe+t

Hello AllI have my PS code  using image operator with DCTDecode  as DateSource.<</ImageType 1                              /Width 800                                  /Height 600          /DataSource   currentfile /DCTDecode filter               --               -- >>image--------------------------------------------------------------------------   jpg datewhere I insert a High Quality JPG file (4-6) MB to convert the file into PDF with Distiller.I found the result PDF