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_krishnan_1000_
Inspiring
March 25, 2008
Question

Escape Characters

  • March 25, 2008
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Hi,

I am trying to print out text with forbidden characters. For example, I am trying to print (Hello World) on the postscript file.

this is what I have

175 602 moveto (\(Hello World\)) show

This line is not loaded. Please help me.
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5 replies

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_krishnan_1000_Author
Inspiring
April 2, 2008
Hi,

I had to put \\ (double slashes) to display the ( special characters.
Thanks for your help.
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_krishnan_1000_Author
Inspiring
March 27, 2008
Hi,

The Ghostscript view just gives me a message. Loading.......

Thanks,

Karthik
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_Aandi_Inston_
Participating Frequently
March 27, 2008
That isn't an error. Maybe you could post a complete program, not just
one line, and we could test it ourselves with different interpreters.

Aandi Inston
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_Miklos_Somogyi_
Participating Frequently
March 26, 2008
You need to define a font before you use "show", e.g.

/Helvetica findfont 10 scalefont setfont

Then GhostScript will work, Acrobat (6) will work, Preview will work.
Without it neither will work.
It seems that these guys do not have a default font.

Miklos
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_krishnan_1000_Author
Inspiring
March 25, 2008
Hi Aandi,

I got to replace ( by using \( but \) can not be compiled by Ghostscript.

Thanks,

Krishnan
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_Aandi_Inston_
Participating Frequently
March 26, 2008
The line you posted is valid PostScript. So something else is wrong.
GhostScript doesn't compile anything, it interprets. I guess you are
getting an error - what is it?

Aandi Inston
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_Aandi_Inston_
Participating Frequently
March 25, 2008
That looks correct.

Aandi Inston
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