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HenryLwin
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August 3, 2012
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Printing from Freehand - Postscript nostringval error

  • August 3, 2012
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Hi,

I am having difficulty of printing from freehand.

The error says Postscript error 'nostringval'.

Printing from other programs work fine, only problem with adobe freehand.

Did some research, it can be due to the damaged fonts or lack of memory, but i JUST reformatted my pc back to the factory default, which is now as good as the new one.

Please advise how to solve it.

Thanks!!

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Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
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August 3, 2012

There could be any number of reasons for getting a PostScript error from Freehand or any other application.

You gave no details about the type of printer you are printing to other than the implied fact that it is a printer that supports PostScript in one manner or another. Some printers are known to not fully and/or properly support the full PostScript specification and thus yield PostScript errors with perfectly fine PostScript files.

Another possibility could be not enough memory in your printer, although that is unlikely given the error that you describe.

You could have a printer that only supports PostScript language level 2 and the PostScript file itself is generated for language level 3. Or one of the placed EPS files requires language level 3.

You may have placed a corrupted or defective EPS graphics file into your FreeHand file.

Or you may have encountered a bug in the method by which Freehand generates PostScript.

You would probably be best off reposting this problem in the Freehand forum and see if any remaining Freehand users recognize the symptom.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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HenryLwinAuthor
Participant
August 3, 2012

Hi Dov,

Thanks for your response.

Let me put more details:-

The printer that I have been using with my pc is Xerox model 1257 GA. Which works pretty well with my pc and prints were fine until yesterday. I believe my printer is supporting PostScript Language Level 2 because it can be printed before.

There are plenty of memories as the pc was just reformatted to factory default.

My pc has now installed Xerox latest universal printer driver, adobe laster printer driver, generatic driver to tackle the problems, still,

unfortunately the error is there.

I was printing the blank sheet from freehand without using any fonts, but still shows the error.

I have the lastest version of anti virus which scans the whole pc everyday, it ain't the bug problem.

Hope this helps.

Thanks and many thanks!!!

Regards,

Henry

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
August 3, 2012

By memory, I was referring to the memory in the printer, not the memory in the PC. But even if a blank page yields this error, then it obviously has nothing to do with printer memory.

A bug in Freehand has nothing to do with viruses that may or may not be on your computer and scanning for same.

Can you print succesfully to that printer from other applications? If not, the problem is probably in the printer (the model is very old) itself, the communications of data from the PC to the printer, or in the driver.

If you had no problems printing anything from Freehand up until yesterday and today you cannot even print a blank page from Freehand points to either a sudden problem with your printer or some corruption in the Freehand program itself or its data files.

Again, you may want to post in the Freehand forum.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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