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Re: Can't get POSTSCRIPT output [message #2493 is a reply to message #2487]

Fri, 08 July 1994 01:33

sjt
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Debabrata Pal (dpal@glue.umd.edu) wrote:
: I am trying to get the postscript output of contour plots, but the
: postcript output is truncated. For example, When I view the plot on X
: terminal, it shows ten contour lines, but when I get the PS output, it
: shows only 5 or six lines, also the geometry of the domain, which I
: can see on X terminal, does not appear on the PS output.

: Can anyone tell me if there is any way to get rid of this problem?

: Thanks in advance

: Deb

You probably haven't called:

DEVICE, /CLOSE

before spooling the PS file to the printer, so the i/o buffer won't have
been flushed and the last several lines of the file won't be there.
You're actually luck to get anything, some print daemons swallow
unterminated postscript files.

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James Tappin, School of Physics & Space Research
University of Birmingham
sjt@xun8.sr.bham.ac.uk
"If all else fails--read the instructions!"

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