Re: Is Postscript platform-specific?

[Laura Lapierre <lapierre -at- MEDIAONE -dot- NET>]

Postscrpt files can be different - largely based on the printer you are set
to. Check to see if the Unix ghostview recognizes the Linotronic 100. What
kind of PS printer is the Unix system connected to - can you set this other
printer to be your default printer for this document?

(I know that I have an HP Laser 5 and many commercial printers cannot
recognize the PS files from this printer. I always have to set the printer
to something else which of course reeks havoc with the layout if I had
forgotten to set it to a different printer while finalizing the document.)

On Tuesday, November 04, 1997 12:47 PM, John Lilly [SMTP:jlilly -at- idcomm -dot- com]
wrote:
> Can someone tell me whether Postscript files differ from platform to
> platform? It was my understanding that are not platform-specific, but
> the Doc. department I work for has had problems with Unix vs.
> Windows-based .ps files.
>
> On the Unix side we use Framemaker 5, and we create postscript by doing
> a print-to-file. This file can be opened and printed using the Windows
> version of ghostview.
>
> On the Windows side, we use Word 7.0. To create a postscript file, we
> set the printer to a Linotronic 100 printer, and do a print-to-file.
> This creates a file.prn file, which we rename to file.ps. This file can
> be opened and printed with the Windows ghostview, but the Unix people
> can do nothing (for example, Unix ghostview cannot open the file).
>
> There are a number of Postscript options that you can set by selecting
> "Properties" for the Linotronic 100 printer, and then selecting the
> Postscript tabbed page. For "output format" I tried "optimize for
> portability - ADSC" as well as several other choices, to no avail. The
> "data format" is set to ASCII, and the other settings are the defaults.
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone with answers or sugestions.
>
> -john lilly
> K2 Communications
> jlilly -at- idcomm -dot- com
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