| Religious Wars [message #78077] |
Mon, 24 October 2011 15:07 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
I am not trying to start a religious war here, but I
have some reason to believe the software Mac owners
use to view PostScript files is screwy. :-)
Or maybe it's Windows user's software, I don't know.
I'm just trying to get to the bottom of a perplexing
problem.
The issue concerns encapsulated PostScript files. Here
are two encapsulated PostScript files:
http://www.idlcoyote.com/misc/a_orig.eps
http://www.idlcoyote.com/misc/a_modified.eps
If I open these files on my Windows machine, using the
latest version of GSView (a GUI to GhostScript), then
the a_orig.eps file looks perfect as long as I modify the
GSView view to landscape orientation. If I view the
a_modified.eps file, the output looks cut off at the far
end in both portrait and landscape orientations.
Oddly enough, Mac users find these results, too, but
for the opposite files!!!
If I put these documents in, say, Google Docs, then
Google appears to agree with the Windows outlook
on things. Of course, if I put them in Windows documents
(Word, Framemaker, etc.) they agree with the Windows
outlook, too. In fact, the only thing that *doesn't*
agree with the Windows outlook, that I have been able
to find in my experimenting, are Macintosh applications.
So, here is my question. Is this a religious war? Should
these eggs be broken on the big end or the little end?
Any help greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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