WYSIWYG on NeXT: NOT !!!!!!

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2 total messages Started by kluge daniel Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:07

#1476

Author: kluge daniel
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:07

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In all adds and datasheets of the NeXT Computer, it was said, that with
DisplayPostScript, one will have REAL WYSIWYG, her a short extract:

4.	A unified imaging system - Display PostScript (R) - for both the
	display and the printer. So what you see on the screen is
	unequivocally what you get on paper.
(C) 1989 NeXT, Part 1136.00

So, I've got some .ps Files from the net, and let the show up in
Preview, which led to an error (BoundingBox ? ? ? ?), so I loaded the
File into 'Yap', and it worked! 
After removing the 'Bounding Box' in the Header, of the File, it went
without error through 'Preview', BUT there was NO output on the screen,
just a white window. So, when I printed the page, I got some perfect
400dpi PostScript drawings.

So, where did the damn WYSIWYG go to ??

Also, some other files produced errors in Yap, did'n show anything on
the screen with 'Preview', but as well, they made sense on the paper.

Ok, so what files were they, well just some very odd Macintosh
PS-outputs, BUT that should not be any problem, because PS grew on the
Macintosh, before other Systems used it largely.
They where all produced with 'Print Monitor', and are as far as I see,
already a little bit pre-processed for the Laser Writer:
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Title: topo 920616pro-NAMES
%%Creator: PrintMonitor
%%CreationDate: Freitag, 3. Juli 1992
%%Pages: (atend)
%%PageBoundingBox: 124 119 3382 2354
%%For: stalder
%%DocumentProcSets: "(AppleDict md)" 71 0
%% ' Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 1989-91 All Rights Reserved.
%%EndComments
%%BeginProcSet: "(AppleDict md)" 71 0
userdict/LW{save statusdict/product get(LaserWriter)anchorsearch
					^^^ Here

Ok, now I but some of those funny Pages through 'psnup', and I get
really some interesting results: They show almost perfect in 'Yap'
(forget 'Preview'...), but on the paper, they come out MIRRORED!
It didn't change when I disabled page reversal so, it's strange,
because, I can print them the normal way...

Any suggestions, comments ??

- daniel
--
Daniel G. Kluge @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich
E-Mail              : kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (NeXT-Mail welcome)
study-related stuff : dankluge@iiic.ethz.ch
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Re: WYSIWYG on NeXT: NOT !!!!!!

#1489

Author: kluge daniel
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:43

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Ok, I found a solution, or exactlier, Stuart Richie found one:

:Hi Daniel, try loading the .ps document into Preview using
:the "Simple Mode".  You can select simple mode from Preview's
:open panel.  That seems to work for me when a double click
:fails.
:
:...Stuart

And it works just fine, thanx !!

- daniel
--
Daniel G. Kluge @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich
E-Mail              : kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (NeXT-Mail welcome)
study-related stuff : dankluge@iiic.ethz.ch
DECnet              : EZINFO::CLUESCH

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