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- From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon)
- Subject: Re: Can't print MacDraw figs with psfig
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.154747.25330@alw.nih.gov>
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- Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
- References: <102897@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:47:47 GMT
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- In article <102897@netnews.upenn.edu> zaidel@muzungu.cis.upenn.edu (Martin J. Zaidel) writes:
- > ... 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
-
- I'm not familiar with psfig, but I've had dvips output fail to print on
- a standard BSD lpr/lpd networked printer. It seems that a part of lpd,
- called psparse, barfs on a line which reads ``%%Feature: *Resolution 300''
- and of course, the user is never told.
-
- I couldn't find anything in the Postscript Language Ref. Manual (2nd ed.)
- about "Feature", and unfortunately this Document Structuring Convention
- line is hard-wired into dvips. An easy cure was to edit the executable
- of dvips, changing the second percent to a space. Things now print.
-
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