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- From: zaidel@muzungu.cis.upenn.edu (Martin J. Zaidel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Can't print MacDraw figs with psfig (Summary)
- Message-ID: <103061@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:43:23 GMT
- References: <102897@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <102897@netnews.upenn.edu>, I wrote:
-
- |> 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
- |>
- |>
-
- Since I received several mailings from people who had seen similar
- problems, I thought the net might be interested in the solution.
-
- The problem is that System 7 Macs include the wrong laser prep file in
- the Postscript file generated by MacDrawII. The solution is to strip out
- the bad code and paste a new header file in with a \special{header=lprep71.pro}.
-
- Special thanks to Eric Dujardin at INRIA for pointing me to the mactotex
- package at mac.archive.umich.edu in mac/util/unix, which automates the
- stripping process---everything you need to fix this situation is in there.
- Also thanks to Anita Zanolini Hoover at U of Delware.
-
- All glory to the net, hari, hari...
-
- Martin
-