I have a cross platform app and for my Linux and Mac versions it generates a postscript file for printing reports and then prints them with CUPS. It works for simple characters and images but I would like to have the ability to embed a true type font directly into the postscript file. Does anyone know how to do this?? Also I can encode ...
What I'm trying to achieve is to determine if the Postscript that I'm parsing contains any element that resides in a table (box)... Thank you in advance... Cheers, RWendi ...
I am looking for a way to cross-hatch various basic shapes. Is there a fill style I can't find or should I use clipping? ...
I'm searching for a free component or library that could convert HTML to PostScript ( .ps file format ). I'm using .Net framework 1.1. Any one have experience with situation like this ? ...
Saving data to Postscript in my app results in a Postscript file which I can view without issues in GhostView, but when I try to print it, the printer isn't able to print it because it seems to be invalid. Is there a way to validate / find errors in Postscript files without actually sending it to a printer? Preferred would be some kind ...
Is there anyway to use unicode strings (most probably in UTF-8, but could be any encoding) in PostScript? So far, i've been using this function to transforms fonts to Latin1 encoding: /latinize { findfont dup length dict begin { 1 index /FID ne {def}{pop pop} ifelse }forall /Encoding ISOLatin1Encoding def currentdict end ...
I need to reformat a text file into a PDF. Using Perl, I am modifying an existing PostScript template file based on what is in the text file. Sometimes this text file will be long enough to require a two page PDF. Can I create a two page PDF file from one .ps file using GhostScript? If so, what tells GhostScript where the page break sho...
I've got Postscript code/data (?) in memory (in a Java Tomcat webapp) that I'd like to send directly to a networked PS printer. Is there an easy way (i.e. just popping open a port and sending the text) to print this, bypassing all of the O/S-specific drivers and stuff (and hopefully not even requiring extra jars)? A link to example cod...
I have an application that prints by generating text files with embedded printer codes, then basically just copies the file to the printer to print. I need to take that print file and convert it to an image - just as if it was printed then scanned. My first thought was to setup a printer with a postscript printer driver attached to a f...
Hi, I want to give a link to a postscript file, but first I want to make a script that will monitor the downloads of this file. The link has to be 'direct' so I added .ps extension to be interpreted by PHP. In the begining the script opens the text file, writes some information and then I don't know what to do. Basically I have something...
I have two pdf or postscript files (I can work with either one). What I want to do is merge each page on top of the other so that page1 of document A will be combined with page 1 of document B to produce page 1 of the output document. This isn't something I necessarily want need to do programatically, although that would be helpful. A...
You can obtain the width of a string in the current font with stringwidth and although this actually pushes offset coordinates on the stack, the y-value always seems to be useless. Is there a way to determine the exact height of a string, that may or may not include descenders? ...
I would like to be able to add barcodes to generated postscript files. The postscript files are generated by another program and I am unable to change how that program works. I've found several threads that suggest this might be done this by converting the Postscript files to PDF (Gluing (Imposition) PDF documents; Create two pdfs from...
I use Mac OS X's Preview to view pdf and PostScript files. However some ps files generated with latex appear blurred, for example, Is there a way to solve this issue? ...
The system I'm using uses the linux utility convert to convert pdfs to jpgs. My box gives me the following error. >$ convert Badge-1114044091.pdf Badge-1114044091.jpg convert: Postscript delegate failed `Badge-1114044091.pdf'. convert: missing an image filename `Badge-1114044091.jpg'. But the production machine does not. According to ...
When using the lp -o orientation-requested=6 in CUPS to print a postscript file, the first page is reversed 180 degrees and then the next page is back to 0 orientation. Third page has the 180 degree rotation and fourth page back to 0 and so on. I need each page in the file to be reversed 180 degrees. Any suggestions on what to try ...
Question: Do you have any suggestion for better names for these functions? Since newpath and stroke causes the current point to become undefined I usually define procedures like /new_path { currentpoint newpath moveto } bind def /close_stroke { currentpoint closepath stroke moveto } bind def However these names are...
Is there a way, in a LaTeX style/class file, to detect which output device is being used (or at least which capabilities it has)? The reason is, I'm writing a class file in which I want to use some Postscript-specific packages (e.g. pstricks) if Postscript is available, but if I just write \RequirePackage{pstricks} then of course bad...
Hi, I am working on generating a document for printing. It should use a specific TTF font and everything must be printed with vector graphics (for quality). Some of the text should be replaced automatically (e.g. current time). Also it should include a custom-generated EPS image with a chart. Ideally I would like to have some kind of do...
I'm printing a complicated swing application UI to a physical printer via an Airport. I've got Mac & windows machines both printing to the same printer. Printing from the Mac looks great. Printing from windows looks far from great - everything is very pixelated, including fonts and graph lines. Some digging around reveals that the av...