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"Angus B. Grieve-Smith" Date: Thu Aug 23, 2001 1:31 pm Subject: Re: No more printing problems! ;-) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Stuart Thiessen wrote: > That may be, but why would a postscript printer balk at the > postscript? That's what puzzles me. Even if it were Ghostview's > fault, it doesn't explain the reason that the Postscript printer also > ignored the output. Hmmm. Yes, I noticed two things: 1) Ghostview will display the first page. If you try and view the second page, it will display it, but if you then try and go back to the first page, it will say "No page numbering available." 2) PDF files are usually much smaller than the corresponding Postscript files. But the two-page PDF files that Valerie created are significantly larger (800K). I'm attaching a PDF of the same .sgn file that I created by printing in format 1 (16 pages); notice how much smaller it is (66K). No offense to Richard Gleaves, but my thought is that SignWriter outputs Postscript that has some errors in it. I've created Postscript files using the regular Windows drivers from all kinds of programs, and never had a problem converting them with Ghostscript. Acrobat Distiller may be more tolerant of these errors than Ghostscript; the large PDF file size may be some way of compensating for it. We may be able to work around the problem by having everyone who wants to create PDFs in formats 4 and 5 pay hundreds of dollars to Adobe and make files ten times larger than they need to be, but that doesn't sound like the best long-term solution. -- -Angus B. Grieve-Smith Linguistics Department University of New Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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