PostScript

I'm attempting to use multiple forms for caching 1 or more EPS Files in a postscript document. I've followed Technical Note #5144 to the letter and use the "array of strings" method since I have to support Postscript level 2 printers. The arrays appear to be loaded with strings representing the EPS as expected. If I use only a single form with 1 EPS it works great. I can execute the form anywhere on the page as many times as I want. If I add a 2nd form to the page it causes strange behavior. The 2nd form is drawn regardless of if I execute it or not. Even if I comment out ALL execform calls it still shows the 2nd form (the page should be blank). I've boiled down the code to a faily simple example. I took out all the binary EPSF content for each form and instead have each form draw a circle. If working write this postscript should be drawing a smiley face using 4 circles. Should look something like this: 0 0 0 <> <--- This should show like a stretched out circle. However

Is there a record length restriction in postscript or specifically for comment records? I want to add a comment record to the start of each document in my postscript file that may exceed 350 characters and some have said this will not work. I cannot find any definitive documents saying that it will or won't.

Hello, I've been fighting with this for a few days now. My company is using some third party software to generate labels for us. I am sort of being forced into using PostScript, for the color capabilities. I have it all working as far as outputting the correct pages and graphics; but I can't seem to get it to select the Manual Feed tray (Tray 1) for it's feeder. I've tried looking up PS references for just the printer, to see if maybe I'm just using unsupported code, but I can't seem to find any. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to select Tray 1?

Hello - we currently updated our adobe7 to adobe 8 professional, and we have a distiller that we put in a "watch folder" where it would PDF"s all our tables ... after the updated to 8.0 the post script no longer works... can someone explain to me what we need to change or do to get this to work again... attached the scrip below... I appreciate any input ______ %! % PostScript program for distilling and combining multiple PostScript files. % When embedding font subsets, it is highly recommended you use this technique % to distill multiple PS files so only one font subset is used for each font. /prun { /mysave save def % Performs a save before running the PS file dup = flush % Shows name of PS file being run RunFile % Calls built in Distiller procedure clear cleardictstack % Cleans up after PS file mysave restore % Restores save level } def (//sqlf1/test/Applications/web/products/out/highlite.prn) prun (//sqlf1/test/Applications/web/products/out/table01.prn) prun (//sqlf1/test/

HI,I am working on a project to implement CJK fonts into the software application to enable double byte text postscript printing. I have read some of the Adobe technical notes, like #5014, #5092,#5174 etc, but still don't have much idea how to start. As the windows fonts on an asian operating system will be in their language, How can I map windows fonts to CID-keyed fonts? Does anyone know what files will be supplied by Adobe in the CID-Keyed font Program?

I'm currently parsing the windows binary format in 5.2 of the EPS 3.0 spec and scanning for %%BeginPreview ... %EndPreview to remove the previews and that's working fine. I couldn't help noticing that the EPS file I got from Illustrator has a block of private data after the '%AI9_PrintingDataEnd' that's twice the size of the preceeding postscript. When I strip out everything after '%AI9_PrintingDataEnd' before injecting into my postscript, it seems to work just fine. Does anyone know whether this will work in the general case?

The latest specification I can find on EPS is the 3.0 version dated 1 May 1992. In this document it notes that one of the requirements of an EPS file is that it have a header of the form %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 but in an EPS file generated by Illustrator 11.0 I find the header %!PS-Adobe-3.1 EPSF-3.0 does anyone know where the 3.1 came from and what the differences between 3.1 and 3.0 would be?

I am using dvips to generate ps files. In ghostview, there are page numbers visible. Once printed, however, all the page numbers are gone. What could be wrong? TIA.

hello, I have a problem with postscript files (eps) that are generated by illustrator. From a mac, but I don't know that is relevant. This is in the header: %%AI8_CreatorVersion: 13.0.1 %AI9_PrintingDataBegin %ADO_BuildNumber: Adobe Illustrator(R) 13.0.1 x421 R agm 4.4379 ct 5.1039 The problem is that ghostscript doesn't accept the files. It seems it has problems with the data that comes after %%EOF (there are sections like %AI9_PrintingDataEnd with data). I hope this is the right forum to ask the question. My question is: can I omit the data after %%EOF and still get the same result? Can anybody tell me what that data is used for? thanks in advance, Ruud

I read in the PostScript documentation and i saw that stroke only has : -linecap -color -mitterlimit -linejoin -thickness I have to write an application and my class Stroke, that i am using, has a lot of other stuff like PatternBrush, ImageBrush ,GradientBrush , etc. Can i get this kind of options for stroke in a PostScript file? How about Fill? (I'm very interested in the gradient option. I haven't found so far very clear documentation about it) Can I get a detailed explanation or(and) some reference? [later edit] Also, can i modify the matrix in one command (without using rotate, scale and translate).I bumped to this only when i was dealing with images and i haven't found something clear in the documentation about how can i do this just by a command. For now i just want to draw from the upper left corner of the page, but i will need it for other stuff too. David

I'm using a program called Doc1, which reads names off a data file and generates a print file for each name, which I then convert to PostScript. I need to find a way to suppress records that don't meet specific criteria. In other words, if the criteria is not met, absolutely nothing should print for the customer in question, not even a blank page. Does anybody know how to do this? Thanks.

Hello everybody, I'm now fussing around with german umlauts (eg. ä,ö,ü) in PostScript for a couple of time and still couldn't get through one of these massive documentation from Adobe and private users. I've programmed a printer-spooler for Unix that takes uses of the lpr-command. The Postscript-file is generated automatically by my programme. Everything works perfectly apart from the umlauts which just appear as a space. I read a document that proposed hex-codes (eg "ä"="\216") but that doesn't work either. Now, I'm not sure if I have to embed my own font to the file (how do I do that?) or if I can directly access the extendet Unicode Latin Codes. Does anyone have experiences or documentation about that problem? Many thanks in advance Simon

In PostScript, if I only know a procedure's name, can I find out the content of that procedure? For example, if there is a procedure defined by /abc {1 2 add} def somewhere before, how can I get a output like {1 2 add} from the precedure's name "abc"? I have tried "cvs" operator, but that only output the procedure name "abc".

Dear People What's the easiest way of converting a raster image to hexadecimal ? For example, I might want to turn a 100 X 100 bitmap, 24 bits deep, into a string of 60,000 hex digits. This, for feeding to the PS colorimage operator. Thanks in advance.

Hello! I am trying to set the page size in a PostScript Document and it doesn't seem to work. I found something that sets up this with : %%BoundingBox: 0 0 5 5 but when i generate a PDF it doesn't seem to work. Can anybody help me with this?

I followed a recipe that lets me put an eps file inline in a PostScript file, and cause the eps file to print by invoking a form. My problem is that now I want to print the same eps file in several places on one page, and I can't. It acts like execform only works one time per page. Can that be true? I tested by doing a second translate and execform--I only get the first instance on the page! Is there a way to reuse a form/eps several times per page? Seems like showpage must do something to reset/reenable execform? /imageBechtel { gsave -329 50 translate IDForm execform 200 300 translate IDForm execform grestore } bind def

I need to convert normal postscript to "optimized postscript" so RIP times on a full color printer, like iGEN, don't take 30 minutes to process a 2500 pages file filled recurring images. what i know so far is that "optimized postscript" is standard postscript written in a certain way. It is more that punting images on the header. Anyone knows where to get the specification? An application that do this transformation would be marvelous! Regards Carlos

I wanna use multiple page sizes in single Postscript document to do some scientific graphics. Is it possible with Postscript? Why the following code doesn't work? %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Title: landscape PDF example %%Pages: 3 %%EndComments %%BeginProlog %%EndProlog %%BeginSetup % Document information [/CreationDate (D:20040224) /Creator (Hand crafted by Russell Lang) /Title (landpdf.ps) % note that GS can get title from DSC %%Title /Subject (Example of landscape and portrait pages) /Keywords (landscape portrait example Ghostscript DOCINFO) /Author (Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd) /DOCINFO pdfmark %%EndSetup %%Page: 1 1 % Set the page size to A4 << /PageSize [595 842] >> setpagedevice /Helvetica findfont 100 scalefont setfont 100 200 moveto (1 portrait) show showpage %%Page: 2 2 %%PageOrientation: landscape % Set the page size to A3 << /PageSize [842 1191] /Orientation 3 >> setpagedevice 90 rotate 0 -842 translate /Helvetica findfont 100 scalefont setfont 100 200

Hi all, I'm working on a lprng's filter on Redhat 5 enteprise. With my filter I want to insert text (a system number) on the top of every page. To do that I've tried the following solution that works for many cases: gsave /Times-Roman-Bold findfont 10 scalefont setfont newpath 150 820 moveto ("text I want to insert") show grestore I insert that code after each "%%Page:" lines or before each "showpage" The problem is that it doesn't always work. It depends on the application that has generated the PS. Sometimes my text doesn't appear. The other problem is for PS files that do not contains any "%%Page", and only 1 "showpage" (html2ps generates that kind of file), my text appears only on the first page. My question is the following: Is there a PostScript solution to insert text on the top of every page with only 1 command (not after each %%Page but only once at the beginning of the document for exemple) ? Thank you very much in advance for any suggestion Romain

I am having a program which gives me PCL file as its output, I want to convert this file to PDF, Is there any product through which i can do so? OR Is there any other way to get a PDF file as the output of my program? Does Adobe support such a product?

Hi Guys, I have been working on a product and would appreciate any insight on how to set pdf properties like zoom level, pdf encryption in the form of an password, applying restriction on copy , printing etc. I have been able to change the title , author, orientation using postscript. Any help will be appreciated Regards and Thanks in advance, Harsimrat

I have the default font size set to 9.5, but where it says "Test One" on line 616, I want to change the font size to 16, and leave the rest 9.5 (for "Test Two and Test Three". How would I do this? I have tried several programs to change the font size, but I either can't get anywhere, or if I change it, it saves the changes in binary! Any help would be appreciated! The file is located here: http://www.pastebin.ca/1003533 (might have to scroll down?) Thanks.

Is there a utility to which I could submit a PostScript file where the utility could determine whether the PS code is page-independent (DSC conformant, or whatever it's supposed to be called)? I work in a digital print environment, and although PDF/X is great, sometimes I get PS, and I'd like to know ahead of time if my printer's front end has the resources to parse the code. Is there also a utility that can convert non-compliant PS code to DSC-compliant? Thank you.

I am looking into printing barcodes in postscript implementation. Is there a best way to accomplish this? Are there postscript font that would do this? If so, how would postscript fonts be loaded/accessed?

Hi, I would like to know some informations about PS langage because i would like print text on my printer with a programm using PS langage. If u have some example, please show me. I would like to make a programm in C (or C++) langage for control my printer (i must use PS langage i suppose) but i dont know how to do that.. If someone could help me, that s was cool ! Thx for ur answers (and sorry for my bad english)