| Printing color object graphics (PRINTER device?) [message #42600] |
Thu, 17 February 2005 11:50 |
K. Bowman
Messages: 330
Registered: May 2000
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I am discovering the pleasures of printing object graphics (irony
intended). I think this is really a PRINTER device question.
I am using XVolume to view some data and want to produce Postscript
output. (I realize that I will get a bitmap inside a Postscript file.)
I have an HP Color Laserjet configured on my computer. If I print
directly to the printer I get good color prints. So far, so good.
If I switch to the "Generic (File Only)" printer, I get a usable EPS
file, but it is grayscale. All color information has vanished.
If I switch to my HP printer with FILE output, I get an xprinter.out
file that looks like Postscript (in a text editor), but will not display
with standard Postscript tools like Illustrator. If compression is
turned off (using print dialog box), the file will open, but all I see
is black squares (tiled 512 x 512 bitmaps?). If compression is turned
on, the file won't open in Illustrator or similar software.
So, is there any way to get a Postscript output file in color, or do I
have to resort to saving image files?
Ken Bowman
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