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In article <BuBqFL.1MF@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson) writes:
>Can anyone offer suggestions for what to do when the dict is full
>printing postscript output?  The file I'm trying to print is actually
>pretty small, but I requires dictionaries from TeX, (Rokicki's) dvips
>(several), and a Mac (LaserPrep) dictionary.  This fills the \dict space
>on a LaserWriterIINT.
>
>(The mac generated postscript file which is included in the TeX document 
>via psfig/epsf prints fine alone.)
>
>The relavent specs
>TeX 3.x
>LaTeX 2.09
>dvips 5.47
>
>Other than this major problem, I'm very happy with dvips and TeX/LaTeX on
>my Unix box.
>
>Thanks in advance.


Many, many thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo for a _Great_ solution to this
problem.  Others suggested things like 1)hack the postscript everytime and
2)use TeX on the mac instead.

The best solution (imho) was Tom's 

___
I know...  I ran into this, too, and hacked up a solution that at least
seems to work fine for me.  Maybe this isn't the "right" way to do it,
but hey...  :-)

In my dvips config.ps file, I make it include a file of my own, thus:

   *
   *   With a LaserWriter, claim 300000 bytes of memory
   *
   m 300000
   *
   *   But fix the darn userdict problem
   *
   h userdict.pro
   *
   *   And compress fonts, please
   *
   Z
   *
   *   Default resolution.
   *
   D 300
   *
   *   Last resort sizes.
   *
   R 100 120 144 300 360 400 432 480

And then my userdict.pro just contains the single line:

   /userdict 200 dict def userdict begin

The size of 200 entries was just a guess that turned out OK -- I seem
to remember checking the default size, and then increasing it a bit
for the temporary replacement dictionary, and then tested it and found
that it worked.  Haven't had any problems with this, even when the
laserwriters run for a long time, doing a mixture of dvips and Macintosh
output...

The result is that output files that start out e.g. like this:

   %!PS-Adobe-2.0
   %%Creator: dvips 5.47 Copyright 1986-91 Radical Eye Software
   %%Title: guide.dvi
   %%Pages: 82 1
   %%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 843
   %%EndComments
   %%BeginProcSet: userdict.pro
   /userdict 200 dict def userdict begin
   %%EndProcSet
   %%BeginProcSet: texc.pro
   /TeXDict 200 dict def TeXDict begin /N /def load def /B{bind def}N /S /exch
   load def /X{S N}B /TR /translate load N /isls false N /vsize 10 N /@rigin{
   isls{[0 1 -1 0 0 0]concat}if 72 Resolution div 72 VResolution div neg scale
   Resolution VResolution vsize neg mul TR matrix currentmatrix dup dup 4 get

[...and so on and so forth...]

Hope this helps...

-tih
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