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Questions tagged [postscript]

A page description and programming language for electronic publishing developed by Adobe Systems.

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Unable to print from LibreOffice

I recently upgraded to Oneiric and am having a strange printing problem. I can print just fine from Evince, Firefox, and presumably all programs that use the standard Gnome printing backend (as evidenced by the Gnome print dialog). But when I try to…
Scott Severance
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Printing footers using enscript

I have a working bash script which converts text files to postscript using enscript 1.6.5.90-2 on Kubuntu 14.04. It does several other things to make the output look better like setting margins, wrapping lines, etc. (which is why I need enscript…
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Opening a .PS from command line

I want to open a .PS (postscript file) having produced it from a .csh script running a series of GMT commands preferably using ghostview. I am trying: gv plot.ps This however opens ghostview but not my plot. Instead I just get the spinning wheel.…
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Convert PostScript to PDF

I have multiple postscript files that I'd like to convert to PDF using a script. I'm not looking for script assistance, but rather assistance with what program would/could I use to make the conversion via command line?
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Driver installation issue: Xerox Phaser 6600

The only drivers I was able to find on the Foomatic database are the ones of a different printer (6360DX). I then extracted the PPD drivers from a win 7 driver but the printer config program is not detecting them. Eventually I downloaded the Linux…
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Converting an encrypted .ps file to a .pdf file

I want to convert my .ps file (which was created from an encrypted .pdf file) back to a .pdf format. Using ps2pdf in ghostscript gives me the following message on my command prompt: This PostScript file was created from an encrypted PDF…
Kewal Shah
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how can I modify binfmt_misc kernel module to make postscript files system executeable?

I begin all my scripts with %!PS, and I am wondering what I can do to make the scripts system executable. So far i have been runing everything from the ghostscript terminal. I tried making the files executeable, but it results in errors amounting to…
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How I can get Verdana PostScript type1 font?

I need to use Verdana with cp1251 in my project. Where can I get you?
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Differences between PostScript printing and printing using manufacturer driver

What are the differences between printing to printers that have support for PostScript and printers for which the manufacturer offers driver packages? To give a concrete example: The Brother HL-L2340DW laser printer does not have PostScript support…
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Ghostscript output to file with ESC-P sequences

For a project (printing nanofluids with an Epson printer) I want to see the the code that the computer sends to the printer. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and have an Epson Stylus SX600FW printer. Using Ghostscript 9.18 I am trying to print a simple…
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Error while installing or updating anything

Since I was trying to install Java manually which I couldn't doing I have been having these errors while trying to install or update anything through terminal or update manager. (Reading database ... 203927 files and directories currently…
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Random PostScript File in my home folder

Today I have installed Xubuntu 14.04 on my machine. I set up some program and different tool. But when I right-click on a file, in 'Open With' line I see an empty cell: When I click on it appears a cross mouse pointer that I can drag on the screen.…
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how do i write EPS and postScript programs?

I am trying to write EPS scripts. %! 100 100 moveto /Symbol 12 selectfont (p ) show /Times-Roman 12 selectfont (is less than 4) show I suspect that beginning the script with %! is not correct, or sufficient. Unfortunately, I cannot find recent…
j0h
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Free URW postscript fonts versus TrueType

Ubuntu includes the free commercial URW++ postscript fonts in /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts (from the gsfonts package). I've seen that the full set are also available in TrueType format (including several not in gsfonts, such as Garamond). If you…
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To move a page in PDF file by pdftk

How do we move page 2 to page 5 (3 pages distance) of a Pdf file by pdftk ?
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