| Re: Printing iTools window to PS file [message #46822 is a reply to message #46821] |
Tue, 03 January 2006 12:51  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Kenneth Bowman writes:
> I am trying to print an iTools window to a Postscript file. Printing works fine
> if the output is sent directly to an HP Color Laserjet.
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> If I print to a file (xprinter.out), however, the file is not usable in any of
> my usual Postscript tools (Illustrator, pstopdf, Preview, Distiller). The
> Distiller output log is:
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> .
> .
> .
> %%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: imageDistiller ]%%
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> Stack:
> 1.0
> -save-
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> %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
> %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
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> pstopdf chokes with a similar error.
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> %%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: image ]%%
First of all, I think this is not an iTool problem. I've encountered
exactly the same problem trying to make PDF files of book chapters.
Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what the problem is now, because
it has gone away. I attributed this "lack of a problem" to upgrading
to version 7 of Acrobat Distiller, but I don't feel 100% comfortable
with this hypothesis.
I just tried creating PostScript files with iPlot and iImage, using
an Apple Color Laserwriter 12/600 PostScript driver on Windows. I
had no difficulty creating a PDF from these files with Acrobat
Distiller 7, but--oddly--the PDF file is not in grayscale for either
file. It seems to be in shades of a subdued red! Go figure!
I notice too that if I try to print directly to a PDF file by
selecting the Adobe PDF driver that IDL completely hangs and
I have to get out the ol' CNTL-ALT-DELETE. :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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