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Re: Painful limitcheck

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From: L. Peter Deutsch
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:49
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Regarding your recent posting:

> I wrote a PS output for our vlsi cad system that takes a cell as input and
> produces some PS file, so I can generate small and big examples without pain.
> 
> The small PS files work well, but the big ones generate a ``limitcheck''
> error under gs.
> Hint : using the Sparc pageview previewer, and the NewsPrint interpreter on
> the SparcPrinter work all right for both small and big examples!
> 
> Is there some know limitations of gs?
> I'd like to be able to print plots on any PS device, so gs is a good candidate,
> and our system manager wants to use in the near futur gs as raterizer for
> the SparPrinter.
> So I'm stucked with that problem, and I'd greatly appriciate some pointer on
> that.

Ghostscript is supposed to be *less* susceptible to limitchecks than
most other (Level 1) PostScript language interpreters, since (in
particular) it does not have a fixed-size area for path storage, so I
would very much appreciate it if you can put a file that causes a
limitcheck on a file server where I can get it by FTP.  If you cannot
do this, send me private e-mail so I can get the file some other way.

			Thanks --

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; voice 415-322-0103 ; fax 322-1734
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