Debugging Postscript files

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#9310

Author: J-C Desplat
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 00:00

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Hi

A quick question. I created a postscript document (1 A4 page) with showcase
on the SGI. This document is made of a series of A4 pages generated by
dvips and scaled down to 0.25% by pstops (with the bounding box edited
by hand to the correct value). Although the resulting file prints fine
in B&W (HP lj5) and is displayed in colour by GS without any complaints,
it fails to print on a colour laserjet 5M.

Could you recommend any good debugger/PS syntax checker, or even some kind
of script to fix this kind of problem.

The error message is:

ERROR: invalidaccess
OFFENDING COMMAND: put

STACK:

{--pop--}
/setpagedevice
-dictionary-


Cheers,
JC

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Re: Debugging Postscript files

#9311

Author: Aandi Inston
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:00

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desplat@epcc.ed.ac.uk (J-C Desplat) wrote:


>Could you recommend any good debugger/PS syntax checker, or even some kind
>of script to fix this kind of problem.

It may not be what you are looking for, because your problem sounds
very device specific - a debugger might not pick it up. But if you are
interested in a commercial solution, check out the product PSAlter,
which we sell. 
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Visit http://www.quite.com/ for info on PostScript, 
PSAlter, psalters, tea, and small furry animals. And stuff.

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