[ale] printing postscript files

[David Hamm]

An eps file is only the description of an image with a bounding box describing
where the image is positioned which could be any where.  So when you rip the
file with ghostscript it expects the image to be drawn within the bounds of a
page.  Also an eps file does not contain any page size information.  If you
realy need to print eps files send me a message off line and we will find a way
for you to do it.

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Lisa Chiang wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I'm having trouble printing a postscript file generated by rlab (version
>2.1.00).  This program produces postscript files with the following header:
>
>%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
>%%For: chiang
>%%Title: PGPLOT PostScript plot
>%%Creator: PGPLOT
>%%CreationDate: 25-Apr-1999 20:52
>%%BoundingBox: (atend)
>%%DocumentFonts: (atend)
>%%LanguageLevel: 1
>%%Orientation: Landscape
>%%Pages: (atend)
>%%EndComments
>
>Octave however, produces postscript files with a different sort of header:
>
>%!PS-Adobe-2.0
>%%Title: npmode.ps
>%%Creator: gnuplot 3.5 (pre 3.6) patchlevel beta 347
>%%CreationDate: Tue Apr 20 21:18:36 1999
>%%DocumentFonts: (atend)
>%%BoundingBox: 50 50 554 770
>%%Orientation: Landscape
>%%Pages: (atend)
>%%EndComments
>
>I can print PS-Adobe-2.0 OK using Suse 6.0 which uses apsfilter but not the
>PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0.  Any reason why this is so? 
>
>I looked in /var/spool/lpd/ljet4-letter-auto-mono-300 which is the filter where
>postscript files are supposed to go and the log file had this in it:
>
>%%[ Error:stackunderflow; OffendingCommand: moveto ]
>%% GNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
>Does this mean that ghostscript cannot handle PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 files? 
>Thanks for any help.
>
>
>--Lisa Chiang
>gt6492d at gatech.campuscwix.net
>Georgia Institute of Technology
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