| Re: Printing iTools window to PS file [message #46812 is a reply to message #46811] |
Wed, 04 January 2006 08:54   |
K. Bowman
Messages: 330
Registered: May 2000
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In article <1136384657.557317.34320@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Maarten" <maarten.sneep@knmi.nl> wrote:
> If you can reach the print dialog, you can print to pdf or ps file from
> _any_ application on Mac OS X (the left-most button is actually a popup
> menu that allows you to select one of the various output options).
> However, since IDL allegedly uses the X-Window system, rather than the
> native system, I think you will not reach the standard print dialog. (I
> prefer to use a Mac, but I'm stuck with Linux at work, so I've never
> seen IDL under Mac OS X).
Since IDL runs in the X-Windows environment, it does not use the standard MacOS
print facilities. Instead it uses the Xprinter software that RSI bought from
Bristol a long time back. One of the annoying things about Xprinter is that it
spits out error message when you do simple things like click on a menu
Warning:
Name: printerCombo_listSW
Class: XmScrolledWindow
Illegal value (255) for rep type XmRDirection
That does not inspire confidence that it works well.
> The PS header you showed suggests that the HP driver is acting up: the
> first two lines indicate a PCL wrapper around the postscript. You may
> want to remove those first two lines and try to convert again. Can you
> try to print to some "generic" postscript printer?
I tried that simple expedient to no avail.
Thanks for the suggestions, Ken
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