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From: [e-mail] (Martin J. Zaidel)
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Subject: Can't print MacDraw figs with psfig
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Our users often generate postscript figures with MacDrawII, then transfer them
over to our Unix machines, where the figures are included in Latex documents
with \psfig, and printed with Tomas Rokicki's dvips.  This system, though
cumbersome, worked well enough until we upgraded the Mac to System 7.0 from
6.0.  Now we find that the MacDraw postscript figures included with \psfig
don't print out on our Apple IIg printers.  However, they *do* print fine when
they're shipped to the printers by themselves (not wrapped in dvips output).
When the documents are latex'd and then converted to postscript by dvips, the
rest of the text on that page (including, for example, the figure's caption,
done with latex's \caption) is printed all right, but the figure never appears.
We know that the figure has been included in the dvips output, since the
figure appears when previewed with ghostview, but the printers won't print them
out when given the dvips output.  The dvips output files are not so large as
to overflow the printer's memory capacity.

Has anyone seen similar behavior? Any helpful suggestions?  (Besides
getting them to use a Unix drawing program... :-)

Martin