| Re: Printing iTools window to PS file [message #46808 is a reply to message #46801] |
Wed, 04 January 2006 13:37   |
K. Bowman
Messages: 330
Registered: May 2000
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In article <%oTuf.26$oD4.5809@news.uswest.net>,
"R.G. Stockwell" <no@email.please> wrote:
> Ken, I doubt it matters, but did you remove the last line as well as the
> first 2 lines?
> (i.e. keep the eof line, but delete the last 2)
> (%%EOF
> %-12345X@PJL EOJ
> %-12345X)
Yup, did that. Didn't help.
I tried printing the file two different ways with the HP Color PS device:
direct to printer (I stopped the print queue and saved the file)
to a file (created xprinter.out)
The two files are both about 13 MB. They appear to have a sequence of
high-resolution bitmaps (tiled image, I suppose).
The files are also nearly identical. Except for the date stamp, they are the
same for the first 8.1 MB. (Don't ask me why they are different after that
point.)
Both files can be sent to an HP color printer without problems. To the eye they
are indistinguishable.
Neither file will open in any of the software tools I normally use with PS files
(Illustrator, Distiller, pstopdf, Photoshop (reports a parser error),
GraphicConverter, ...)
So, to send graphics to a colleague, I can send them the ps file, which they can
print, but not view on their screens; or I can make low-res bitmaps.
Do users of Windows or other versions of Unix have this problem, or is it just
MacOS? That is, can you convert an xprinter.out file to PDF, for example?
Ken
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