PostScript

Hi allI am a newbie to Postscript.  I inherited an application which generates a Postscript file.  The client now wants to add a QR code to the file to provide information.I reviewed Terry Burtons blog and found a potential method to generate a QR code.I then tried to append it to my existing PS file.page 1 of the PS file prints but the second page - nothing prints - everything just stops.Any thoughts or ideas appreciated.Anyone successfully added a qr code?ThanksEddie

I have not been successful in getting certain colors  using  setrgbcolor to appear.  I am trying to get a cream color to show in both GSview and on my printer, and no color appears.  For example, I can not get 238 213 183 setrgbcolor  to yield any color except the white of the screen or the paper. Are there certain colors that postscript will not handle?

Hi,I'm trying  to write a PS special to include "Proof"  on every page within latex. I used to do it via userdict and /bop-hookEverything was fine  but now I need to prepend a few DVI pages before the original documents but they has to be without "Proof" mark.And I have a problem because after making PS from that concatenated DVI I see "Proof" in every page. So now I want to writea condition with "/showproof where {} if" to assigning it from the page where "Proof" needs to start. Here how my code looks:  \special{ps: /showproof true def}  \special{%    !userdict     begin       /bop-hook{        /showproof where        {          gsave          % ... some code for positioning this text          (Proof) sho

HIWe've recently upgraded our RIP, which the supplier has moved to an Adobe RIP. On the pervious version any pixel which contained less than 50% content was left off and over 50% content was included in the 1 bit tiff. On the Adobe RIP any pixel which contains content is included.Is there a way of controlling this 'overscan'?Many thanksCraig

Good day,I'm hoping to convert something from a PostScript that doesn't work to a PostScript that works using Ghostscript 9.25.  This command works perfectly:gswin64 -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dDUPLEX -sDEVICE=ps2write -sOutputFile=gmsnewpostscriptdup.ps gmstestfile.ps -c "<</PSDocOptions (<</ManualFeed false>> setpagedevice statusdict begin 0 setpapertray end)>> setdistillerparams" -f...except for the fact that it doesn't carry over the original PostScript file's simplex/duplex information. Does anyone know the setpagedevice parameters that would allow me to do that? From what I understand, the parameters are Adobe-centric, so the program (Ghostscript) that I'm using for the actual tearing-down/rebuilding isn't important in this case.Thank you!

I am encountered with the following error while Manipulating a PS file. The Font F2 is well defined in my PS file but it is giving error.Dropbox - 1017948103.7z Kindly guide how to overcome.With RegardsError is GSview is as:--- Begin offending input ---e: 9984)25 414 wF2 B (Installation Address :  )25 405 wN1 23 402 362 -8 iB (Recurring Charges)29 396 w(Product)29 387 w(Plan)138 387 w(Period)247 387 w(Qty)309 387 x(Rate)336 387 x(Charges)396 387 x/F101{/I 5.22 d I/Arial F}b F101(BROADBAND-SAC-9984 BBG-COMBO-EXPERIENCE-UNLIMITED-249-M)29 378 wF3 (01/08/18 to 31/08/18)222 378 w(NA)309 378 x(NA)336 378 x(249.00)396 378 xF7 (Total Charges \(Rs.\))29 369 w(249.00)397 369 xN1 23 366 362 -8 iB (Usage Charges)29 360 w(Phone Calls)29 351 w(Units)182 351 w(Duration/Vol)225 351 w(Gross Amt)309 351 x(Discount)353 351 x(Net Amt)397 351 x..../F100{/I 7.2 d I/Arial F}b F100 (Page 1 of 1) 500 13 w 14 351 T  M1 90 O F2 B (GST Registration Number : 27AABCB5576G1ZL)2 -3--- End offending input -

I have two PDF files and export it to postscript (print it)in first example:CKEBRN+HelveticaNeue-Light*1 [8.63201 0 0 -8.63201 0 0 ]msf255.859 257.888 mo(adres_miejscowosc)shin second example:CKEBRR+Helvetica#2045#20Light [8.63201 0 0 -8.63201 0 0 ]msf255.859 257.888 mo(\000C\000F\000T\000G\000U\000A\000O\000K\000G\000L\000U\000E\000Q\000Y\000Q\000U\000E)shnext step I try convert it to PDF by ghostscript in first example everythig is OK but in second I receved unknown charsets in PDF file.Where is a problem I have wrong poscript file or I need some fonts in client (postscript) or server (ghostscript) or somethig else?/usr/bin/gs -VGPL Ghostscript 9.07 (2013-02-14)I m using cups-pdf with default option to generate PDF/usr/bin/gs -q -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="/var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS/potw-job_485.pdf" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwr

Hello,in my code snippet, I'm trying to create a "go back" button with a text over a rectangle that brings the user to the previous page of a multi-page ps.here after the code:<</PageSize [842 595]>> setpagedevicegsave/Times-Roman-Bold findfont12 scalefontsetfontnewpath10 10 moveto(BACK PAGE) showgrestore[/Rect [9.000 9.0000 82.00 21.0]/Border [1 1 1 [3]]/Color [0 0 1]/Page WANT TO GO TO THE PREVIOUS PAGE/View [/XYZ null null 0]/Subtype /Link/ANN pdfmarkIs there a way to add in the code a command or attribute to bring the user to a previous page?Thank you in advance if you could help me! Jop

HiI have a Harlequin Rip V11.0, in which I am trying to set up a "page feature" that ignores specific colours, the idea behind this isinstead of having to goto each print set up and add a colour to ignore in a PDF work flow I just add that colour once to the page feature and have that page feature activated in each print cue, basically I only need to add the colour once.The below code is what I have but it does not appear to do anything, I have posted on the Harlequin site and had no joy, gone back to Harlequin to see if they can offer any help, but have had response.I was hoping that someone preficient in writing postscript may be able to offer something I can work with, please see my attempt below, the page size and elements should not be altered, this is only to ignore colours, any help welcome.<<  /SeparationDetails <<     /Ignore <<      /TEST true       /slug blue true  &nb

I have made certain changes in my Post script file due to which the phone number "07582-238335 " is getting Grey in colour and not visible on Hard Print.I am able to locate the Line which is causing the same, but If I remove that Line the other part of graphics is damaged.If I remove this line from my Ps file, the Phone Number comes in Black but the Graphics elsewhere for which it was originally meant is damaged "E 510 488 59 -9 i"My Original and Edited PS file can be downloaded fromDropbox - Ps.7z Please suggest what is to be doneThanks

Is there a way to have the pixels in a bitmap generated with the image operator in a round shape? Ideally the round pixels shall have smooth edges.Background: I want to convert existing legacy graphic prints on a Printronix P8000 matrix line printer to PDF. For this I have written a C-program converting the P8000 graphics to PostScript and subsequently to PDF. All this works very nicely now. The graphics are well usable. But the clean pixel graphics in PDF with exactly squared pixels does not look as pleasant as the old graphics on the hardware printer with round pixels looking like smeared circles.

Fellow Adobe-ites,I just found my March 1988 Adobe COLOPHON 5 (24 page) news publication... in perfect condition.Gotta wonder... is this of any value?Paul RuezHigh School Photoshop* Teacherpaul@ruezart.net*Started w/V.2

I need to have several images on the same page. All images are output with the image operator. The images are black/white and coded hex in the PS code. I’m struggling to get all images converted to PDF. It is always just the first image that can be seen in PDF. All subsequent images are suppressed. I tried various converters including the Acrobat distiller – all the same. Any hint?

Hi, I have post that adds a feedback hyperlink on a page. The hyperlink open an email client for users to provide feedback.However, the script works only for a page. I have to manually insert the script on every page to add the link on every page.Can you please suggest how to update the script such that it automatically runs while generating PDF for each page?Regards,Nikita

A vendor of ours creates documents from Word inputs, and emits postscript.By default, they embed their fonts into the postscript.  But they offer the option not to do so, relying on printer-resident fonts, for better performance.When we try this, two characters are printed as empty square boxes:  the em dash and the en dash.The PDF we get from Distiller for that postscript input looks the same: boxes for dashes.Looking into the postscript, I see that these two characters are delivered as octals, \226 and \227.They are right in the middle of text.  I.e., "THIS - THAT" might be (THIS \226 THAT)Is this wrong?  Is there an encoding that Distiller would interpret rightly?

Sorry if this question has been asked before. Need information from the community if my above question is possible. I am not using distiller. The product I'm using is an automation tool where I take user input in the form of a postscript file which my process then converts to PDF to dynamically stamp additional information to each page, once that's done, the data is re-assembled into one contiguous data stream and converted back to a postscript file output. Problem with this is, all the original postscript commands are lost.  Has anybody here done this level of automation before on postscript files while being able to preserve the ps commands?

I need to add an image to my existing postscript. If an condition is satisfied, it need to print the new image (below code i got it when i converted it from jpg to ps) instead of the old image (designed using simple ps commands).When i include the complete set of code, it prints FINE on a separate page.But i need to have the new logo in place of old logo based on a condition. To print this on a conditional basis, i need to move this withing the /NLOGO {.....} bind def and call the logo like below. But it fails (Error Message at the bottom). Please let me know where to NLOGO {.....} bind def definition.code snippet from main gsave                                   newpath                         &

How can I install adobe universal poscript driver on Windows 10 without getting into the loop?INF file from installation can be found here:"Generic_Adobe_PostScript.inf -- inf install for generic PostScript output using Adobe ADIST5.PPD; You will need to get ADIST5.PPD from Adobe, currently available at:; http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/printerdrivers/win/all/ppdfiles/adobe.zip; Place ADIST5.PPD in the same directory as this .INF file, then add a printer,; chose local port FILE:, Have Disk... and browse to this inf and "install anyway" when prompted.; You should now have a new printer which prints to a postscript file.;; CIS 2011-07-14; [Version]Signature="$Windows NT$"Provider=chris693ClassGUID={4D36E979-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}Class=PrinterCatalogFile=oemprint.cat DriverVer=14/07/2011,1.0.0.1 ; Manufacturer section [Manufacturer]"Adobe"=Adobe,NTamd64,NTia64 [Adobe]"Adobe Generic PostScript Driver" = ADIST5.PPD, Acrobat Distiller [Adobe.NTamd64]"Adobe Generic PostScript Driver

Bonjour, j'ai récupérer par un internet un .jsx qui me permet d'ouvrir chaque page d'un pdf sur un plan de travail dans illustrator.J'ai différents gabarits que j'utilise et je souhaiterais qu'à l'ouverture des pages du pdf, le script me place le calque du fichier illustrator contenant mes tracés.Je ne suis pas très doué en javascript, j'arrive à aller chercher mon fichier ai, à l'intégrer dans une varibale, mais je ne sais pas comment l'installer sur mes pages pdf.Cordialement.

I have an input pdf file which is using type3 fonts. The glyph definitions contain inline images and flate decode filter applied on them.My moto is parse the glyphs to postscript. Does i need to remove the filter from the data manually or just take the binary data as is to postscript. I have read postscript support flate decode filters.Here is the sample glyph definition:32 0 obj   <<  /Length 342  >>  stream  37 0 4 -52 33 -1 d1  0.01 0 0 0.01 0 0 concat  gsave 2900 0 0 -5100 400 -100 concat  BI  /IM true  /W 29  /H 51  /BPC 1  /D[1  0]  /F/Fl  /DP<</Predictor 15  /Columns 29>>  ID xœ=Ì¡  Â`ÅñÿeÂLθ n`0>Ù`ñ  f[¦DŒF_ÁhC1ì%Ä)¶o.¢Ÿ"†ßá†s®àì]^ÏŠÅS³tFËÂÚ3sç'Æi èÐÇ:j‹¹¨åìOTÿ ª•ÉÙÕÅŸ¨‡¹Ó$°ÆΚWèÁ!¯Cê  ÷0&f µtðV ©Ë÷iôíتÄ~Ø•Œöí&´« +ro#Ê‚ûÏÅùlßG'  EI gRestore  endstream   endobjHere is what i am trying in postscript/g21 {37 0 4 -52 33 -1 setc

I have an input pdf file which is using type3 fonts. The glyph definitions contain inline images and flate decode filter applied on them.My moto is parse the glyphs to postscript. Does i need to remove the filter from the data manually or just take the binary data as is to postscript. I have read postscript support flate decode filters.Here is the sample glyph definition:32 0 obj   <<  /Length 342  >>  stream  37 0 4 -52 33 -1 d1  0.01 0 0 0.01 0 0 concat  gsave 2900 0 0 -5100 400 -100 concat  BI  /IM true  /W 29  /H 51  /BPC 1  /D[1  0]  /F/Fl  /DP<</Predictor 15  /Columns 29>>  ID xœ=Ì¡  Â`ÅñÿeÂLθ n`0>Ù`ñ  f[¦DŒF_ÁhC1ì%Ä)¶o.¢Ÿ"†ßá†s®àì]^ÏŠÅS³tFËÂÚ3sç'Æi èÐÇ:j‹¹¨åìOTÿ ª•ÉÙÕÅŸ¨‡¹Ó$°ÆΚWèÁ!¯Cê  ÷0&f µtðV ©Ë÷iôíتÄ~Ø•Œöí&´« +ro#Ê‚ûÏÅùlßG'  EI gRestore  endstream   endobj Here is what i am trying in postscript/g21 {37 0 4 -52 33 -1 set

I know it is possible to print a PDF document from within a postscript file using Document Structuring Comments and Document Comment Extensions.  Is is possible to print a single page PDF document multiple times as a booklet?  For example I have a PDF document that is a page of graph paper.  I want to print this PDF file 8 times in the form of a booklet.  Is this possible and if it is how would I code the postscript to do this?Thank you  in advanceDavid

While converting my PDF to Post script file the green Tick Mark for the verified digital that was okay on PDF gets to a yellow mark as "Signature not verified" after my file is converted to Post script from PDF.How to resolve the issue is there anything I need to do in PDF or windows setting, before conversion.Kindly Guide.Regards

I am using some old DTP software and a PS laser.There are some old Adobe utilities that might be useful that I cannot find.I have "pcdown", a DOS utility for sending PS and fonts to a printer.The version I have is : PCSEND utility version 1.51 alpha, compiled 10/11/90I'm hoping there is a later version more compatible with my printer.pcdown 1.51  can send fonts to a printer VM, and I can do that. But it also supposedly supports printer hard disks and cartridges, but when I try those options I just get:Not ready reading drive XAbort, Retry, Fail Also I've seen mention of what I think is a Windows version of this, called "Windown", but cannot find an installable version of this anywhere.And finally, a program for making screen fonts from PS -- "Font Foundry".I used this previously but now only have it on the original floppy disks, and these are sadly  unreadable on any drive I've tried.Are these programs still available anywhere or have they been sent down the memory hole?

Dear Experts,I want to make Postscript that can not be edited. Is there can a Postscript code which can be inside PS file itself , to do so ?Logic Can be somewhat Like this....There can be a Date Stamp inside Postscript File. If the File Created or Modified Date Matches with that Date, the File Should Get opened. If somebody tries to edit or modify the content, the File Created Date or Modified Date will get changed and will Not Match the Stamp Date Inside and shall not get opened.Can it be done ? Kindly comment.Thanks as Always.RegardsRiya.