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2010-11-08 20:38:04 CT | #1 |
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Deron Kazmaier From: United States Registered: 2006-01-29 Posts: 4639 |
On 11/6/10 12:24 PM, Bart Mathias wrote: Bart sent the file to me privately, but I thought I should post the fix This change has not been tested extensively, and I can assure you that Anyway, if you load the file %/Encoding PGSEncoding 256 array copy def And put this line just after it: Then Bart's file will print. Deron -- |
2010-11-09 09:24:39 CT | #2 |
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Roy Leith From: United Kingdom Registered: 2006-02-23 Posts: 171 |
--- In PageStreamAmigaBeta@yahoogroups.com, PageStream Support <deron@...> wrote: > I tried this for printing via a PS printer. I got a blip or two from the printer LAN connection, but no more. Please note that I have been lucky printing .ps files with AmiGS, whereas no one else seems to have had success. Topic 2: The pallette positions can be set manually in Pagestream5.prefs. Topic 3: Although I am opening PGS in shell mode, I still have to open a new document before opening an existing document. Also, it is necessary to wait for a while until the font substitution requester has settled down and is displaying all the settings. If you can select each font and see the substitution then it is OK to click the OK button. PGS will then recover from the DSI. Regards |
2010-11-09 09:39:10 CT | #3 |
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Deron Kazmaier From: United States Registered: 2006-01-29 Posts: 4639 |
On 11/9/10 2:24 AM, royleith wrote: Hmm. All this does is make a local copy of the Encoding vector. Bart was For those of you who can not print but should be able to, please make Deron -- |
2010-11-09 10:48:02 CT | #4 |
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Bart Mathias From: United States Registered: 2007-01-13 Posts: 320 |
On 11/08/2010, PageStream Support wrote: > [...] Should I have posted it to a text or document drawer at Yahoo!'s AmigaBeta > [...] if you load the file Indeed it does! Thank you! I don't think I tried anything like typing a simple line of text and seeing |
2010-11-09 11:06:07 CT | #5 |
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Bart Mathias From: United States Registered: 2007-01-13 Posts: 320 |
On 11/09/2010, royleith wrote: > --- In PageStreamAmigaBeta@yahoogroups.com, PageStream Support > I tried this for printing via a PS printer. I got a blip or two from I'm not quite sure what this means. Are you saying that AmiGS would open and
5.OS41:> list ram: AmiGS opens the new file but it looks downright ugly. I tried again, but set test3.ps 7461 ----rw-d Today 10:58:38 as a result. AmiGS hasn't been able to open test3.ps as of this moment! (Why I am able to open an existing document without doing a new one first. But |
2010-11-09 14:39:43 CT | #6 |
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Deron Kazmaier From: United States Registered: 2006-01-29 Posts: 4639 |
On 11/9/10 1:48 PM, Bart Mathias wrote: No, you did nothing wrong. I get files privately all the time. That is >> [...] if you load the file Glad to hear! Deron -- |
2010-11-09 22:57:45 CT | #7 |
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Paul R. Zager From: Unknown Registered: 2004-08-16 Posts: 106 |
Deron, I created a new docuemnt consisting of a gradient filled The pentagon's gradient was not gradated at all. The Clearly not correct, but better than I've gotten up to this
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2010-11-09 18:04:18 CT | #8 |
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Bart Mathias From: United States Registered: 2007-01-13 Posts: 320 |
On 11/09/2010, Paul R.Zager wrote: > Deron, This made me want to give it a try. I set up a new document, drew a Then I created the new colors Red and Blue. I filled the oval with Red, They came out fine on screen. I saved it as PDF and viewed it with AmiPDF. Having to set up the colors every time is a bit of a pain. One possible way |
2010-11-10 09:03:30 CT | #9 |
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Roy Leith From: United Kingdom Registered: 2006-02-23 Posts: 171 |
--- In PageStreamAmigaBeta@yahoogroups.com, Bart Mathias <mathias@...> wrote: > I'm not quite sure what this means. Are you saying that AmiGS would open and
> > Topic 3: I will try again with added patience and see what happens. Regards |
2010-11-10 11:05:24 CT | #10 |
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Roy Leith From: United Kingdom Registered: 2006-02-23 Posts: 171 |
I have added a green square with a yellow to cyan gradient fill and a red circle with a blue to white radial fill to my text test file. I have, also, changed some of the text colour. To add the new colours it was necessary to set black to zero. Then CMYK colours could be set with the appropriate CMY slider positions. The sample colour square was entirely wrong in both the editor and the colour palette, but the colours end up correctly associated with the colour name (e.g. Red is 100% Magenta and 100% Yellow). PGS still does not print direct to the printer. Seeng that someone else has successfully printed directly to a LAN connected printer, I may have another go. Please note that this is with Deron's 'patch' as I am too lazy to take it out. I saved as PDF. Loading into AmiPDF produces an error report and the following final lines were preceeded with lots more 'XPDF error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap' lines. XPDF error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap The AmiPDF display is in colour, but in an ugly layout with some text in the wrong fonts. That resulted in text going beyond the right margin and the line spacing being erratic. Also, words inset in sentences and in a different colour, overlapped the incorrect larger font selected for the surrounding paragraphs. Printing to the Workbench printer produces the same ugly layout, offset down and to the right, and in greyscale. Printing to Postscript (PS) produced the same ugly layout and offset, but in full and correct colour. PS Changing the Printer Settings to print to a Postscript file rather than PAR: resulted in a file that appeared almost perfectly in AmiGS. One character in a font that I did not over-write with Deron's set in Fonts: came up with a 'no character' square. If I replace the OS4.1 files with Deron's, that might go away. Printing to the Workbench printer printed with the offset and greyscale reported above for PDF. Printing to Postscript (PS) produced the correct objects, fonts, layouts and colours. > > > Topic 3: It worked. On running PGS for the first time I get an immediate recoverable DSI. Going away and making a cup of tea seems to be enough time to get the substituted fonts displayed and the document opened. Closing PGS and then reopening does not generate the DSI and the font substitutes appear much more quickly. However, the delay is variable. |
2010-11-13 16:31:59 CT | #11 |
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Deron Kazmaier From: United States Registered: 2006-01-29 Posts: 4639 |
Not exactly a simple box test, but since you still managed to get Deron
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2010-11-17 19:14:58 CT | #12 |
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Don C Ferguson From: Canada Registered: 2006-03-01 Posts: 729 |
Greetings "royleith" <r.m.leith@btinternet.com>
<<snip>> r> I tried this for printing via a PS printer. I got a blip or two from the printer LAN connection, but no more. Please note that I have been lucky printing .ps files with AmiGS, whereas no one else seems to have had success. Not here, not yet!
r> The pallette positions can be set manually in Pagestream5.prefs. Here, I've been able to locate both Toolbox and Edit Palette where I want them by modifying the data in PageStream5.prefs
Don't understand what you mean by "Then use the MUI control to snapshot it." Obviously, I've not tried what you have achieved.
r> Although I am opening PGS in shell mode, I still have to open a new document before opening an existing document. Also, it is necessary to wait for a while until the font substitution requester has settled down and is displaying all the settings. If you can select each font and see the substitution then it is OK to click the OK button. PGS will then recover from the DSI. Finally able to confirm Roy's observation about first applying "New" from the Navigator, fiddling with the 'new' doc a bit and then dumping it. Then opening an old file was successful. This patttern observed on two trials. Yes, the above describes my interaction just a few minutes ago. After a few clicks on the font names displayed in the "Font substitution" requestor/panel, the panel's response became consistent. This was after a recovery from a DSI error too. Don't recall recovering from a DSI error report before. However, perhaps that DSI error is the cause of the current failure of 5058a to progress in printing a document. After about 10 minutes, there appears to be no movement in the progress bar. Impatience overcame me. Reboot. Reopened MeatSauce again, after doing your 'New' doc fiddle, and NO DSI came along. Trying to print MeatSauce again now that a DSI has not intervened. Within 10 seconds printing progress bar moves to about 20-25% and then stalls. I gave up! Will have to try again later.
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2010-11-18 11:05:31 CT | #13 |
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Roy Leith From: United Kingdom Registered: 2006-02-23 Posts: 171 |
Have you tried using another program to print to a PS file? Can you use AmiPS to print that? If not, then there is a preferences problem, somewhere. I seem to remember that you use a PS printer. Have you selected the PS printer driver or have you selected one of the manufacturer drivers? > There is a fourth icon, top right, on my installation. It is at the left hand end of the row and takes the form of a downward facing arrowhead pointing at an underline. Clicking on this brings up a menu which includes 'snapshot'. In most MUI installations this is set up with MUI settings. However, there appears to be no such setting in PGS. If you cannot see the icon I suggest looking for the global MUI preferences program. I am hoping it is there by default for all of us. > |
2010-11-21 17:39:23 CT | #14 |
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Don C Ferguson From: Canada Registered: 2006-03-01 Posts: 729 |
Greetings "royleith" <r.m.leith@btinternet.com> Hi Roy, <<snip>> r> Have you tried using another program to print to a PS file? Can you use AmiPS to print that? Well ..... yes and no. With PgS 4.1.5.6 I opened an old file which contained text and graphics. A one page Table of Contents, a three page Preface, and 16 pages of text and graphics. Saving this as a PostScript file, then opening the PostScript version with AmiGS was okay. Printing a single page (in colour) from AmiGS was okay and the printout was true to what appeared on the screen presented by AmiGS. However, what appeared on the AmiGS screen was a very poor rendition of the original. Lots of errors! So I tried the same using PgS 5033. While 4156 produced a measly PostScript file of 549,838 bytes, version 5033 produced 2,207,859 bytes, and each version was translating the same file. However, AmiGS refused to print the PostScript file created by 5033. Some complaint about the GhostScript interpreter.
Yes, I have the same Postscript printer as The Bart, and we use the same PPD file, which as I recall, he shipped to me a LONG time ago. I use the same PPD file on my iMac where PageStream 5058 (for OS X) uses the PPD file nicely. r> There is a fourth icon, top right, on my installation. It is at the left hand end of the row and takes the form of a downward facing arrowhead pointing at an underline. Clicking on this brings up a menu which includes 'snapshot'. In most MUI installations this is set up with MUI settings. However, there appears to be no such setting in PGS. If you cannot see the icon I suggest looking for the global MUI preferences program. I am hoping it is there by default for all of us. Okay, I found the icon and the related drop-down menu with the «snapshot» option. Had no idea what it was for! Some days, one learns something new! Thanks! So I moved things around a bit and tried the «snapshot» option. This was using 5033. After exiting 5033, which does not work properly since the MUI screen hangs around, I had to reboot. Starting 5033 again revealed the Toolbox and the Edit Palette in the same old locations, although the frame for the text page had been altered. So .... !! I should try this out on 5058a and see what happens.
No idea about the stalling! Cheers Don (Green Dragon) |
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