HELP: PS errors with LaserJet but not GS

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From: Simon Chandler
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:02

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Dear PostScripters,

I have some complicated graphics produced by Mathematica and printed
into a PostScript file from a Macintosh.

This is rendered perfectly by GhostScript but causes errors when sent
to a LaserJet IIIsi.

Question - why should GhostScript (which I've been told is a poor
interpreter) understand my file when the LaserJet (which I've been
told is a good interpreter) won't ?  A typical error is

   ERROR: limitcheck
   OFFENDING COMMAND: setscreen

Is there some way of avoiding these errors ?
Please excuse my PostScript ignorance.

Simon Chandler
Hewlett-Packard Ltd (CPB)
Filton Road
Stoke Gifford
Bristol
BS12 6QZ

Tel: 0272 228109
Fax: 0272 236091
email: simonc@hpcpbla.bri.hp.com

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From: simonc@otter.hpl.hp.com (Simon Chandler)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:02:52 GMT
Subject: HELP: PS errors with LaserJet but not GS
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