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Re: 2 Postscript printing problems - Mac to Unix

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From: Nuno Paixao
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 12:55
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In article <aland.702839792@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> aland@cs.brandeis.edu writes:
>Hi there...  I hate to bother everyone, but I'm at an impasse once
>again.
>
>First (most important) problem:
>
>  I'm trying to print postscript generated on a Macintosh (System
>7.01, untuned) running TeXtures; Using PS Trimmer and turning off
>Background Printing, I got the text to print on the Unix box, but when
>it hit a picture, it stopped with the following error code:
>
>	Messages from last print job:
>	%%[ Error: stackunderflow; OffendingCommand: exch ]%%
>	%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
>
>I don't know anything about Postscript as a language, so I can't do
>anything about this myself.  I'm trying to find out what program was
>used to create the drawings...
>
>The second problem is that even with PS Trimmer, I couldn't get MS
>Word documents to print, doing everything else the same.  I'm looking
>for help with that, but it's not as urgent...
>
>I tried the dmml package, but it didn't help...
>
>Thanks,
>	-=Alan
>	aland@cs.brandeis.edu


A SIMILAR PROBLEM WAS JUST DISCUSSED IN LAST MONTHS MACUSER (MIGHT HAVE 
BEEN MACWORLD, BUT I DON'T HAVE THE ISSUES IN FRONT OF ME TO CHECK.)

ANYWAYS, I BELIEVE THAT THEY TRACED THE PROBLEM TO A IMAGES GENERATED
BY SUPERPAINT.  IF YOU REMEMBER THE COMPATIBILITY CHECKER THAT APPLE
PUT OUT A YEAR AGO, IT LISTED SUPERPAINT AS MOSTLY COMPATIBLE.  YOU JUST
FOUBD OUT WHY ITS NOT FULLY COMPATIBLE.

I BELIEVE THAT THEIR SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM WAS TO IMPORT THE PICTURES
INTO MACDRAW.  THATS A LOT MORE SYSTEM 7 FRIENDLY.  TAKE THEM INTO MACDRAW
AND FROM THERE TAKE THEM BACK INTO WORD.  THAT SHOULD CLEAR YOUR PROBLEM.
NOW, CHANCES ARE YOU DONT HAVE MACDRAW... I DON'T KNOW AY OTHER WOR AROUNDS.

MAYVE SOMEONE ELSE HAS A SOLUTION...


NUNO




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Subject: Re: 2 Postscript printing problems - Mac to Unix
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