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Re: Font Listing Program

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From: Jess Anderson, MACC
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 1989 00:47
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In article <2216@scolex.sco.COM>, allanh@sco.COM (Allan J. Heim) writes...

]Well, I tried running the fontlist program from PC Publishing (which I
]_do_ read), as posted in this newsgroup, and the thing would make my
]LaserWriter II NTX print hundreds of pages of the following:
] 
]ERROR: undefined
]OFFENDING COMMAND:  [some random character or characters would go here]
] 
]STACK:
] 
]....and so on.  Yes, I removed the mail header of the program, so the
]beginning of the file looks like:
] 
]%!PS-Adobe-2.0
]%%Title: fontlist.ps
]%%Creator: Ross Smith
]%%Freation date: 4 November 1988
]%%For: Pc Publishing
]%%Copyright (C) 1988 Ross Smith
]%%End Comments
[...]
]Am I doing something wrong?  Or did somebody not test this thing
]before publishing it?

I did not find *those* errors, because when I first tried 
the program, I had already loaded the ehandler.ps from 
Adobe, which promptly revealed a series of typos and other
problems.  That day I posted the corrections I had made,
with remarks that I had not tested the downloaded fonts
or 3-column aspects.  The two other modes of the program
worked fine on my LW II NTX.

I'm sorry, but I do not have the corrected machine-readable
in my home machine (it's at the office), but I have an 
uncorrected copy at home *and* a corrected listing.  I
will post that if someone asks, but be forewarned that I
have no laser printer at home and cannot actually test
here.

Email me if you'd like to have it.


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