Escape Characters

[_krishnan_1000_]

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.

[_Aandi_Inston_]

That looks correct.

Aandi Inston

[_krishnan_1000_]

Hi Aandi,

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

Thanks,

Krishnan

[_Aandi_Inston_]

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

[_Miklos_Somogyi_]

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

[_krishnan_1000_]

Hi,

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

Thanks,

Karthik

[_Aandi_Inston_]

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

[_krishnan_1000_]

Hi,

I had to put \\ (double slashes) to display the ( special characters.
Thanks for your help.