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- From: kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (kluge daniel)
- Subject: WYSIWYG on NeXT: NOT !!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.220759.6007@ifi.unizh.ch>
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- Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:07:59 GMT
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- In all adds and datasheets of the NeXT Computer, it was said, that with
- DisplayPostScript, one will have REAL WYSIWYG, her a short extract:
-
- 4. A unified imaging system - Display PostScript (R) - for both the
- display and the printer. So what you see on the screen is
- unequivocally what you get on paper.
- (C) 1989 NeXT, Part 1136.00
-
- So, I've got some .ps Files from the net, and let the show up in
- Preview, which led to an error (BoundingBox ? ? ? ?), so I loaded the
- File into 'Yap', and it worked!
- After removing the 'Bounding Box' in the Header, of the File, it went
- without error through 'Preview', BUT there was NO output on the screen,
- just a white window. So, when I printed the page, I got some perfect
- 400dpi PostScript drawings.
-
- So, where did the damn WYSIWYG go to ??
-
- Also, some other files produced errors in Yap, did'n show anything on
- the screen with 'Preview', but as well, they made sense on the paper.
-
- Ok, so what files were they, well just some very odd Macintosh
- PS-outputs, BUT that should not be any problem, because PS grew on the
- Macintosh, before other Systems used it largely.
- They where all produced with 'Print Monitor', and are as far as I see,
- already a little bit pre-processed for the Laser Writer:
- %!PS-Adobe-2.0
- %%Title: topo 920616pro-NAMES
- %%Creator: PrintMonitor
- %%CreationDate: Freitag, 3. Juli 1992
- %%Pages: (atend)
- %%PageBoundingBox: 124 119 3382 2354
- %%For: stalder
- %%DocumentProcSets: "(AppleDict md)" 71 0
- %% ' Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 1989-91 All Rights Reserved.
- %%EndComments
- %%BeginProcSet: "(AppleDict md)" 71 0
- userdict/LW{save statusdict/product get(LaserWriter)anchorsearch
- ^^^ Here
-
- Ok, now I but some of those funny Pages through 'psnup', and I get
- really some interesting results: They show almost perfect in 'Yap'
- (forget 'Preview'...), but on the paper, they come out MIRRORED!
- It didn't change when I disabled page reversal so, it's strange,
- because, I can print them the normal way...
-
- Any suggestions, comments ??
-
- - daniel
- --
- Daniel G. Kluge @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich
- E-Mail : kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (NeXT-Mail welcome)
- study-related stuff : dankluge@iiic.ethz.ch
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