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Re: Religious Wars [message #78076 is a reply to message #78075]

Mon, 24 October 2011 15:29

Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
> 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.

Probably windows.... (see below)

> 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.

On my linux box (RHE5), the file a_orig.eps is all screwy (no matter what orientation I choose in kghostview), and the
file a_modified.eps looks just fine.

> Oddly enough, Mac users find these results, too, but
> for the opposite files!!!

So, if I read correctly, my linux results agrees with the mac ones.

Gotta luv them anecdotal data points... :o)

cheers,

paulv

> 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
>

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		Re: Religious Wars By: David Fanning on Tue, 25 October 2011 07:45
		Re: Religious Wars By: vto on Tue, 25 October 2011 07:33
		Re: Religious Wars By: vto on Tue, 25 October 2011 07:25
		Re: Religious Wars By: David Fanning on Tue, 25 October 2011 07:11
		Re: Religious Wars By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Tue, 25 October 2011 06:46
		Re: Religious Wars By: lecacheux.alain on Tue, 25 October 2011 01:22
		Re: Religious Wars By: manodeep@gmail.com on Mon, 24 October 2011 16:19
		Re: Religious Wars By: David Fanning on Mon, 24 October 2011 16:06
		Re: Religious Wars By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 24 October 2011 15:29

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