Printing postscript with DCF

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2 total messages Started by Turgut Kalfaoglu Thu, 26 Mar 1992 18:44

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Author: Turgut Kalfaoglu
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1992 18:44

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Hi. I am having some trouble getting DCF to create postscript (ascii)
which I intend to LPR later on to our Dec printer server 40. It always
complains about not being able to find the DCFINDEX of the font library.

I first did an LDBASE and read the previous postings, and tried those,
like:

   SCRIPT myfile (DEVICE(PSA) PSOUT(EBCDIC) PROF(DSMPROF3) FILE(myfile)

There is one thing that I noticed: There are no files that start with
PSA* on the disk where DCF is located, is it a site-configurable option
to have PS support?

Regards, -turgut

Re: Printing postscript with DCF

#283

Author: Paul Gilmartin
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1992 06:49

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>  SCRIPT myfile (DEVICE(PSA) PSOUT(EBCDIC) PROF(DSMPROF3) FILE(myfile)

There's documentation somewhere that says that "PSOUT(EBCDIC)" is purely
ornamental; to get usable PS, you must say (or default) "PSOUT(ASCII)".
Then, you need a sufficiently recent maintenance level of LPR that it
accepts the "BINARY" option.  Then, it works to LPR to a LaserJet IIIsi.
It doesn't work with our LaserWriter, but since it works with the
LaserJet, I tend to blame the LaserWriter rather than DCF or LPR.

Mail me if you can't find the APAR for the BINARY option.

The failure if "PSOUT(EBCDIC)" is a major violation of the 7-bit clean 
recommendation of the Adobe PostScript Language Reference.  I intend to
submit remedying this as a requirement to SHARE/GUIDE soon.

Good luck,
gil

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