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I am very keen to know what is purpose of ZWAdobeF font, who are the users of this special kind of font and what purpose this font type solves?Is there any special feature regarding this type of font?

Dear community.I have not experience about postscript files. My question is followingNow I make import of postscrip files to Image editor (for example Adobe Photoshop or Gimp). Every postscript file as layer in Image editor. But postscript files are imported with white background. How can I set value of backgroundcolor as transparent in postscript file? thanks in advancenav3000

I have a .inf file which I use to create printers.  If I change the contents of one of the PPD files referenced by the PPD file, and then re-install the printer, Windows 7 ends up using the original PPD file instead of the new one.What do I have to do to get Windows to realize that the PPD file needs to be changed?BTW, after all these years, the PPD strategy still rocks!

I can't get my "Custom Page Size" to go any larger than the standard 11 x 17 no matter what I enter it reverts back. So - I have been trying to adjust the printable, imageable size for one of the existing sizes, let say the Tabloid Extra. I change all locations in the ppd to match but when I replace the ppd it just completely drops that entry. I've tried to add an entry and that doesn't work.When I replace the PPD with a copy of the original then everything is back to normal. I checked the coding for Max Page Size and it seems to be large enough for the size I want but again the ppd or driver won't let me change it. I did download and install a new Adobe Postscript Driver - No Help.Is there another file that I need to change also? Or what am I doing wrong?Thanks,Donna

PostScript newbie here... I have two issues with a postscript image I'm trying to print.I have a green logo .eps file that I print to an HP color laserjet printer via a Linux server, but the logo only prints in greyscale.  I have reviewed the image code, and tweaked the code to specify color (e.g. changed the "image" command to "colorimage"), to no avail.  Can anyone assist me in getting a color printout?  Here's the main part of the code (specific image bits removed):%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0%%TemplateBox:0 0 188 78%%BoundingBox: 0 0 235 97%%PageOrigin:0 0/width 188 def/height 78 def/pixwidth 235 def/pixheight 97 def/picstr width string def/dopic {gsavewidth height 8[width 0 0 height neg 0 height]{currentfile picstr readhexstring pop}imagegrestore} defpixwidth pixheight scaledopic..(image bits here)..%%TrailershowpageThe second issue is that I can't get the image to embed in another page - that is, when I call the image to print in a C program, the printer spits out the l

My program generates postscript files which are then sent to a printer.  I am trying to add support for duplex printing.  I added the "<</Duplex true>> setpagedevice" statement to the postscript generator but the resulting file still prints in simplex.  The statement does change the printer's behavior... it feeds each page except the last page into the duplex unit but when each page comes out the second time, the back is still blank.  The second page then prints on a second sheet of paper.  So there is no net change in output from adding the duplex statement to the script.Below is the text for a sample file.  It should print 2 copies of a 2-sided report, a total of 2 pages.  Instead it is printing 2 copies of a 2-page single-sided report, a total of 4 pages.Thank you for any help you can provide.%!PS%% Text%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Center String - Draws the string centered on the X,Y/CenterString { dup s

We have a definition of an upstanding arrow. We need to make it print bold. Is there an instruction to add to this definition that will give us a darker arrow, please?/BRab {BRpts/BRsymbol findfont BRptsize scalefont setfont(\014) SpaceBRfont setfont} bind defOr are we stuck with the weight of the original character? I hope hope of a positive reply because there is a PostScript instruction to slant a character, e.g. to slant one by 17 degrees, you include in the definition 0.3057 mul (which apparently represents tan 176). (I really getting beyond what I know here!)

I'm trying to add color to an existing text to ps C program. It currently translates a few esc sequences to postscript "cmds" that are in an included .ps file for bold/italics and shading...I've added a new cmd for color, but I'd rather not have the 3 separate rgb values in the C program, but just pass an index (then translate the index to rgb values in the included .ps file (which also defines the new cmd)I'm having trouble with the included .ps file getting just the first rgb value rather than the triplet.here's my ps code.../color_black { 0 0 0 } def/color_red { 1 0 0 } def/color_blue { 0 1 0 } def/color_green { 0 0 1 } def/color_mag { 0.83 0.83 0 } def/color_dict [ color_black color_red color_blue color_green color_mag ] def/srgb {color_dict exch get setrgbcolor} bind def% usage20 20  moveto0 srgb (black )1 srgb (red )showshowpageplease show me the error of my ways!

We have our PostScript printer driver send a text file with some extra instructions. Among other things, this file establishes a custom "6 setlinewidth" mainly for fractional divider lines. The custom value is apparently reset to the default value of 1 with each new page, which is convenient. However, on some pages with such a line we also wish a character to be drawn. The strokes used in drawing the character on those pages are set at a width of 6, which is too black and too blurry for a character. The PS default setting of 1 would be appropriate, and we can see that it is so on pages that don't have horizontal lines. The wordprocessing program allows printer commands and files to be sent anywhere on the page. My approach to getting a drawn character of default thickness was to insert the command before the character and, if need be for further lines on the page, after it. But a printer command of "1 setlinewidth" (or any other value) results merely in a gap being left for the charact

I have a program that generates postscript then "prints" the script to a PDF file using gs.The user can opt for the document to be in landscape format.  The program handles this by using the adding the "90 rotate" command early in the script.  This works with no problem.  When the user opens the resulting PDF in Adobe Acrobat, it is displayed in landscape orientation.Also, the user can optionally have a "watermark" added to the document which is text at a 60 degree angle.  This is handled by issuing the "60 rotate", then the watermark text, then "-60 rotate".  This also works with no problem.  The resulting PDF file has watermark text at a 60 degree angle in relation to the rest of the text in the document.The problem is when these two options are used together.  The document is assembled correctly (in landscape orientation with a correctly angled watermark) but it is displayed in Acrobat in portrait requiring the user to rotate it to be able to read

Hi all, Is there a standard or right way to inject multiple different PostScript streams into another one?We are currently doing it in two different ways.1)      As we programmatically build the “outer” PostScript stream and add pages we may decide to read a complete new PostScript stream from the file system and include it into our own. This inner PostScript is a complete PostScript program on its own and typically is produced by MS Word printing to a file. We may do this several times before completing our “outer” PostScript.  This method is used when we intend to send the PostScript to a physical printer device.2)      Same as above, however we use the “Run” command.  We do this when converting from PS to PDF.  The PostScript interpreter has access to the file system in this case. We have been doing this for several years and while it has worked for the most part, I can’t help wondering if we should be doing something

Not sure if this is the most appropriate forum to post this question in, but here it goes…I'm having a problem with the AdobePS 8.6 driver: when I try to print text containing accented and other special characters they are not rendered, instead I get blank spaces.I suspect this has something to do with the printer using its own ROM resident versions of the fonts rather than the one on the Mac. Apple's LaserWriter driver has an option to "always send all needed fonts" that does the trick, but this option is absent from AdobePS.I've already deleted all font entries from the printers PPD, but to no avail.How do I force AdobePS to sent the needed fonts to the printer?

I recently upgraded my department with a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard and Adobe CS5 with Acrobat 9 and I also use Quark 8. Is there a way to create a Virtual PS Printer?

Hi all,I need the coding to add a blank final page to ps docs with an odd number of pages, if this is even possible.  I am appending these files to a large file that is printed double-sided.  If there are not blanks inserted for the docs with an odd number of pages, then when appended, the first page of the next doc is printing on the back of the last page.  Any ideas?Thanks!

Hi,For many years our company has distributed a monospace TrueType font called "SAS Monospace". This font contains 'box characters' (see the wikipedia article if you've never heard of box characters). In Windows XP, it is possible to use GDI in an application to send output to the:PostScript Printer DriverVersion 5.2 (6.0.6000.16386)Jointly developed by Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc.Model name: Adobe PDF ConverterPPD filename: ADPDF9.PPDdriver and create a PostScript file that utilizes the font's box characters. All the box charcaters line up fine when the file is viewed in GSview. In Windows 7, you can run the exact same application, on a machine where the exact same font is installed, and the box characters will be slightly misaligned. In Windows 7 RTM, the version of the driver is:Version 5.2 (6.1.7800.16285)In Windows 7 SP1 the version of the driver is:Version 5.2 (6.1.7601.17514)In both Windows 7 RTM and Windows 7 SP1 the same misalignment occurs. The problem apparently ha

Hope this is the right place for this question:I currently use a bit of PostScript in Distiller's epilogue.ps file to add my name as "Author" to all my PDFs as they are distilled:[ /Author (My Name) /DOCINFO pdfmarkSo far, so good.Now what I want to do is automatically pass the data in the header of the PostScript file (such as %%Title, %% Creator) to the epilogue file.e.g. something like this:[ /Title TitleVariable /DOCINFO pdfmarkso that a .ps file with a header line%%Title: My File.filebecomes a PDF file with Title: My File.fileIs this possible?Hope this makes sense.At the moment, the three "main" PDF metadata fields are always empty, and it's a pain having to fill them manually.

After Adobe announced the complete PDF engine- more than 2 years ago- from scratch many experts and articles predicted that this is the end of Postscript But somehow still PS rip Engine from all vendors are the dominated technology And ironically majority of PDF generated by Distiller!! This ensures the demands that Adobe must develop PS 4.0?  It was rumor and perhaps it will be trueRegardsDr. Adam

Hi everyone,I'm a bit stuck to this problem.I have a PDF file and an EPS file generated with sam2p. I'd like to add the EPS file to each page of the PDF when i print it (on the fly). I'm using ghostscript to print the PDF. Each of my test, the EPS file was on the first page then i have the PDF. I can't find a way to incorporate the EPS file into the PDF file.Any tips or solution is welcome.Thanks a lot for taking the time of reading my post.

I created postscript program to read and generate PDFD from line data streamthe PS routine just read the file from line one till the end , format and output the line .It works well with file with 1000 up to 4,000  and suddenly when I encounter large file - up to 20,000 pages I had this error by distiller Error: limitcheck; OffendingCommand: defdef  is the postscript part used as /VAR  xxx def    etcSo it is built in PS command.Why suddenly it is not accepted !!I split the large  files into two files and both ripped correct and the PDF generated by distiller.I touhgt it is memory problem but I jhave 4 GB of ram!! and perhaps some internal memory allocation of PS !!!RegardsDr. Adam.

Hi AllI am using DCT filterI tried to implement JPG with CMYK into my PS application using image command with dictionary .Here are  the correct parameterers/ImageType 1/Width  www/Height hhh/ImageMatrix  [ [Width  0 0 Height 0 Height]/DataSource   currentfile  /DCTDecode filter/BitsPerComponent  8/Decode     [0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 ]It didn't work - it display the JPG as reverse balackWhen I use the same way with slight different parameters to display JPG RGB and JPG grayscale  IT WORKS FINE.Only CMYK is not .Adobe claimed this DCTDecode filter  support the JPG format , but perhaps in CMYK format there was some development! and the DCT filter is not supporting the latest JPG with CMYK ?here is the sample image and the result  outputRegardsAdam.

Our application, as one of several export options, generates PostScript files.  We recently added support for UNICODE text to the application - all internal text is utf16.  I am having trouble exporting asian (CJK) fonts correctly.  Before the switch to UNICODE we supported ShiftJIS for Japanese.  I know that PS does not directly support UNICODE.  So, my question is, what is the best way to proceed given the facts that I have UNICODE text and I must generate a correct PS file which will display that text?To my pea-sized brain, it looks like there are two possible paths...1. Convert the utf16 to ShiftJIS (or whatever code page is required) and export as before?  This seems doable, but strikes me as a hack since I would need to look at each code point and figure out which code page it is related to.2. Re-encode the font?  But how?  I've looked at documentation for CID-keyed fonts and some sample code for re-encoding, but I admit that I have not yet

Hi,I am a student that is currently working with a project where we are supposed to read something from a postscript file and place it in a new postscript file.I want to edit a postscript file with the help of ghostscript to make an output with certain values I have picked out of the original postscript file.Right now I have a file that does this, but I want to get the fonts that are embedded in a hexadecimal string and decode it so I get the ASCII symbol from it.The original file have objects that look something like this/g5 <1C60D8A8C9B64EDFFB83C6241DB110BEE5AB2FAD9D94B39ED5E81E7411B66E9361DDE78FC667AB91EF9824>And what I want to do is to pick them out and check them against some dictionary in the postscript code (systemdict???) and pick out its value.Does anyone have something like this or an example to do this?Right now my code to pick out the file starts something like this:(%stdout) (w) file defwhere I get the file and now I want to search for let's say the string "<1C60D

Hopefully someone here who has more knowledge of postscript than I have (which is nil) can help me with this...I have a Brother HL-5250DN printer which was supplied with a Brother PPD file that starts:--*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"    *%================================================    *%      Copyright(C) 2006 Brother Industries, Ltd.    *%      "Brother HL5250DN for CUPS"    *%================================================    *%==== General Information Keywords ========================    *FormatVersion: "4.3"    *FileVersion: "1.00"    *LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1    *LanguageVersion: English    *Manufacturer: "Brother"    *PCFileName: "HL5250.PPD"    *Product: "(Brother HL5250DN series)"    *cupsVersion:   1.1    *cupsManualCopies: True    *cupsModelNumber:    

please help me, i am beginner  i need to edit some numbers in a catalogue. all i received from the boss is a pdf and a ps file. can i edit the pdf and send it to print (the pdf is distilled from the original ps file). or do i have to edit the ps file and then i can create the pdf? which program do i have to use? thank you very much

Hi All -I have a VB.NET app that produces a PS file containing text and graphics.  I need to keep track, in my VB app, of where some text has printed. Specifically, I have a block of text which will need to be parsed into multiple lines to fit into a fixed width column.  So I would like to figure out how much of the text I can print on the current line before going to the next line. So I need to know the printed width of a given chunk of text.Is there any way for VB to calculate or somehow get (through a call to ??) the 'stringwidth' of a string of text for a given font?Thanks for your thoughts.  Bob