Questions

Hi all,  Can you please suggest me a way to convert PS language level 2 file to PS3 file.Thanks,Sateesh.

Well, people are moving to Windows 7, and so must I. However, my trusty (and ancient, by electronics standards) Minolta PageWorks/Pro 25 printer, with Adobe PS 3 (3010.106) SIMM, is now just a very large piece of metal and plastic on my desk. It is working perfectly well with OS X 10.6 and Win XP.  Why should I have to shell out another $400 or whatever to replace a printer that is working perfectly?Does anyone know of a free or for sale generic PS driver for Windows 7? Of course I would like something free, but if there's something to buy, I would happily do that. Any suggestions as to how to get a (networked) PS printer to work with W 7?  (I do still have its PPD.) Thanks for any pointers.-Conrad

I am planning to Integrate Adobe PDF Print Engine in MFP/Printer for printing of PDF/Postscript Files.  Can this be deployed in VxWorks.(i.e. can I deploy PDF Print Engine2 in VxWorks Environment).

I have Query related to "Adobe PS/PDF"1) Will "Adobe PS/PDF Interepreter" supports all embedded platforms.2) I have planned to implement this in a multifunctional printer.Where can I get details about how to implement "Adobe PS/PDF" for printing in MFP?3) Is there any document related to "Interpretation of Adobe PS/PDF in MFP” which can be shared?

Hi,I am trying to display German characters in postscript file, but it showing up junk characters. How to over come this problem.Characters used are (Gratis-Abzüge)

Hi,I am pretty new to PS programming and I read quite some FAQ and articles on PS programming and enabling duplex printing on the device.My wishes are pretty straight forward: All pages shall be printed duplex, no tumble.So I added right after the prolog comment the following code:%%EndProlog%%BeginSetup    <<        /Duplex true        /Tumble true    >>        setpagedevice%%EndSetup%%Page: formtemplate_v14_1 1Unfortunately the printer could not care less.I have now a huge pile of simplex printed pages on my desk and no clue what I am missing.If you can help, go ahead. I am printing using the prfile32 utility using a HP 4700 CLJ printer. It is attached on the network HPdirect port and I have installed the universal printer driver from HP.I will provide you the PS file, but cannot attch it here, since the function is disabled.Any help appre

HelloSince Acrobat 8.1 accessing file system  from distiller is changedsimple postscript commands like(C:\\tmp\\1.ps) run   doesn'twork anymore  !it generates error generate  [Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: run]In distiller!!?Any body knows what do I need to make the execute file on the hard disk in windows Vista or 7 ?Thanks

I need to somehow store a given set of x & y coordinates into a def. When I draw a path to a certain point, the program needs to store that point in a def to use it later on. For instance, the program will be deciding whether to draw a line to the left or to the right, depending on whether or not it's x value is greater than (to the right of) the center of the page, or less than (to the left of) the center. the logic is as such: { Draw a circle with circleX and circleY as the center Draw a line from the edge of the circle out 10 points Now after you draw this line, where are you (what is your x,y)? Store those x,y coordinates into defs named previousX, and previousY. if previousX is greater than or equal to circleX, then draw a line to the right. If not, then draw a line to the left. } I have been using currentpoint with success when creating a new origin point for arcs and whatnot, but something like /previousPoint currentpoint def just doesn't work. I also cannot compare

Hello, I have a postscript program which needs to output some text to a file. I declare the filename like so: /tmpfile (input.mrd) (w) file def Currently, it outputs to that file name in the same directory that I run the postscript program. I need it to output to a different directory, outside of where I am running the program. For example, I might want to output to "C:\Myfolder\input.mrd". I have tried several different ways of declaring the file, such as /tmpfile (C:\Myfolder\input.mrd) (w) file def, or /tmpfile (C:/Myfolder/input.mrd) (w) file def, or /tmpfile (Myfolder\input.mrd) (w) file def, or /tmpfile (C:\\Myfolder\\input.mrd) (w) file def.. etc. but none of those work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hello,I have several print files that contain a PCL job and one or more Postscript Jobs.  The PCL job prints a cover letter that is one or more pages and this is printed simplex.  The Postscript Job(s) can be any number of pages from 4 to 9 and need to be printed duplex with each Postscript Job starting on a new page.  Each Postscript Job has PCL code before and after the Postscript Job. I inserted a duplex command into each Postscript Job and this produces the desired duplex output with each Postscript Job starting on a new page.Everything is great until I encountered a file that does not paginate correctly. This file has one PCL Job and three Postscript Jobs with 7, 8 and 7 pages respectfully.  When this file is printed the second Postscript Job of 8 pages starts on the back of page 7 of the first Postscript Job.  In addition, when this print file is sent to my printer it is broken up in to only two print job (the PCL Job and one Postscript Job).  This i

Hi All,I have the postscript file which needs accessibility feature, as part of this searched all the images and added alt text for figures. After converting Postscript to PDF have Alt text for images but doesn't shows tooltip on the images in Adobe Reader/Professional. Here is the postscript code i added in Postscript file,[/Subtype /Figure /Alt (Image of Figure 2-1) /StPNE pdfmark[/_objdef {layoutObj} /type /dict /OBJ pdfmark[{layoutObj} <</O /Layout /Height 70 /Width 140 /BBox [90 290 250 360]/Placement /Block>> /PUT pdfmark[/Obj {layoutObj} /StAttr pdfmark[/StBMC pdfmark........[/EMC pdfmark[/StPop pdfmarkKindly let me know how to display tooltip for images in the pdf using Postscript programming?Regards,Selvakumar

I have an application that needs to be able to convert a jpeg into hex ascii, and then put that hex ascii into a postscript file. I know of one way to put this jpeg into postscript, but that's without using the jpeg's hex - instead, it uses a local path to a filename. I need to know two things: 1. Within a jpeg, how can I extract the hex ascii to use in postscript, in a way that postscript will understand it? Do I need all the header information? If anyone has done this before, please shed some insight. I have found the red book to be not as helpful for this specific problem as I would like. 2. Within said postscript file, how do I enter the hex of the jpeg back so that it will display properly? Thank you very much.

I urgently need some help.  I am a bankruptcy lawyer who just installed Coller TopForm on my box running XP Pro SP3.  Unfortunately, the only way that program will output a PDF is through AdobePS, which it comes bundled with.  When I try to install the drivers, it unpackages the Winstaller, but goes nowhere from there, because my system is having trouble running the 16-bit process.  I tried installing the drivers in safe mode, but that didn't work because the print spooler can't run in safe mode.  I tried re-downloading the driver from the Adobe website (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44&platform=Windows) and same results.  Please help -- I can't use my software without this annoying relic.

Hi,          I am Using Fedora12 Linux system. I have to find a particular data in the postscript file,for that i need to convert that file into text file i tried with most of the tools like ps2text.But cantable to convert please if you any other method abart from this one let me know that one.RegardsSiva

Greetings!We have an ordering application which uses .ps files which serves as templates to generate a .pdf order contract form using Adobe Distiller. The .ps template file are created by 'print to file' a template Word document using Word 6 (pretty old) which saves a .prn file and it is later renamed to .ps. These template word document contains certain tags (delimited text), which will also be present in the .ps file as is. The application later parses these .ps files to replace these tags with its corresponding values from business objects and passes the stream to Adobe distiller which returns a PDF file.In Word 6 [67 0 0 -67 0 0]/Helvetica MF(Order Number: $sOrderNumber$)116 677 MSWhen the same word document is 'print to file' using Word 2003, the tags ( and all the text ) are encoded in the .prn file as below: In Word 2003 [83 0 0 -83 0 0]/Helvetica MF(O)116 731 MS (r)181 731 MS (d)209 731 MS (e)255 731 MS (r)301 731 MS ( )329 731 MS (N)352 731 MS (u)412 731 MS (m)458 731 MS (b)52

Hi AllDoes anybody know how to override the postscript pdfmark code to use Distiller Settings?I have a pdfmark code that calls the multiple postscript files to generate the pdf. Whereas if I call that "pdfmark" code file using the command line Acrodist.exe, pdf generation fails incase of warnings/errors. Whereas if I run the postscript files individually, pdf doesnt fail. So, probably I think its a good idea to force pdfmark to use the default Distiller settings and still include the pdf page even if there is a error.I would really appreciate if someone know the code which we can use to force to use the Distiller settings.I couldnt find any correct code from pdfmark reference guide.http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdfmarkReference_v9.pdfRegardsHari

I have 1 page to print 10000 copies how do I setit to offset at every 500 copies. I can make a file with 20 pages and run 500 copies uncollated,but would like to add instruction to ps code to do this.Any help is appreciatedThank youCraig

Hi all,I have an old cad software that write some schemas directly in ps files, referencing helvetica font.I need to use text in central europe language, russian, greek, etc. I have strings in a database, in unicode format.If I write automatically these strings in ps files, I have to change Helvetica font with MyriadPro (for example) and I could do this with a text substitution.It works fine if all text is ansi and I find a pdf distilled with myriadpro. But if I insert or paste non-ansi text, the distiller give me an error.I think that I should convert the text in ansi greek, ansi russian, etc... and then use helvetica Greek, etc.Is there a chance to use a opentype font?Thanks, Mario

Is there a OCR A font for Postscript that can be loaded to postscript printer?I have an application where I am applying a postscript file to a spool file, and some of the data in spool file I want to print in OCR A font.  What is easiest way to do this?Dale

I am trying to capture the bounding box from painting a character using glyphshow, but the result seems not to be the actual bounding box.  Here is a snippet of PS code that I am trying:% begin snippet/BickhamScriptPro-Bold 70 selectfont0 0 movetonewpath/glyphname glyphshow pathbbox/ury exch def/urx exch def/lly exch def/llx exch dev% end snippetI use the result to center the glyph like so:% begin snippet/hw llx urx add .5 mul def0 hw sub 0 moveto /glyphname glyphshow% end snippetFor the glyph I'm using the result is not centered ("d.begin", font: Adobe Bickham Script Bold).  Note the glyph is a very slanted cursive 'd' with the upper right part extending well over adjacent characters to its right.What am I doing wrong?Thanks.

Hi All,I have attached a sample .ps file. Upon converting this, I am getting some junk characters (I have inserted some special characters such as #$ etc..) in the GIF output. Please help me out in resolving this. Why these characters are not supported...I have attached the input sample, intermediate .ps file and output sample.Thanks in advance.Best Regards,Jawahar

Dear all,I have a image file in .ps format. When I try to convert it to GIF or JPEG or PDF format, I could see that the image is truncated the right. But when I chnage the .ps file to be in LandScape mode the image conversion is proper.But I want the image to be converted in Portrait mode without image truncation.Can any any one help me out in resolving this issue in .ps file.Can something be done by chnaging the .ps file so that, I can get complete imageGiven the postsript content below:--------------------%!PS%%Version: 3.15%%DocumentFonts: (atend)%%Pages: (atend)%%EndComments%ident  "@(#)lp:filter/postscript/postscript/dpost.ps   1.1"%% Version 3.16 prologue for troff files.%/#copies 1 store/aspectratio 1 def/formsperpage 1 def/landscape false def/linewidth .3 def/magnification 1 def/margin 0 def/orientation 0 def/resolution 720 def/xoffset 0 def/yoffset 0 def/roundpage true def/useclippath true def/pagebbox [0 0 612 792] def/R  /Times-Roman def/I  /Times-It

Here is something I am having trouble explaining.What I would like to do is draw a colored rectangular box with stripes of another color at 45 degrees.  Below is the code I wrote to do this.  It does what I want, but also puts a rectangular border of the stripe color around the whole rectangle, which I do not want.Anybody willing to look at this quickly for me?%!/boxH 200 def/boxW 150 def100 100 translate.5 1 .5 setrgbcolornewpath0 0 moveto0 boxH linetoboxW boxH linetoboxW 0 linetoclosepathfillnewpath0 0 moveto0 boxH linetoboxW boxH linetoboxW 0 linetoclosepathclip-45 rotate1 1 .67 setrgbcolorboxW 6 div 2 div setlinewidth/drawstripe {boxW 6 div mul 0 moveto 0 2 boxH mul rlineto stroke} def-12 1 6 {drawstripe} forshowpage

Hi! I have program that today generates PCL code for printing. The data to print is stored as 7-bit ASCII. When printing PCL I use the "Symbol Set Selection" parameter ESC(0S to tell the printer to use the "PCL ISO 11 Swedish" "Symbol set" to get the correct Swedish characters (åäöÅÄÖ) printed.PCL ISO 11 Symbol set I now want to write a PS code instead and wondering if there is any way to do the same with PS as with PCL. Kind regards Daniel

My custom application generates Postscript files that are then distilled to create a PDF file as final output.I know how to program a watermark in Postscript using setpagedevice.However, I cannot find a way to dynamically make the watermark appear only at printing time. I'd like to emulate (programmatically in PS, or pdfmark)  the Acrobat Professional capability whereas you can set a watermark to appear only at printing time.Thanks for your suggestions!