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OT: PostScript printing problem

1) Pick and install a postscript printer assigned to print to FILE. 2) In Adobe reader, use that printer and print to a file named appropriately. 3) Use GSView and note that top two inches (approximately) of every page is missing so the balance of the page is moved up that amount.

Tried a number of postscript printers - same for all.

How fix?

Reply to
Robert Baer
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I just used Adobe Reader 10, printed via Apple LaserWriter II NTX v51.8 to a file, then opened with gsview, no problem, except the size is slightly smaller than the original... i.e. larger margins... maybe a setting I missed.

You're just lucky... like Joerg >:-} ...Jim Thompson

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Reply to
Jim Thompson

Do you have the correct media size selected in GSView? Displaying an A4 page on US letter media could cut the top off.

Don't use Adobe reader. Use GSView, with the pswrite driver, to directly convert the pdf to Postscript.

Or, even better, use Ghostscript from the command line;

gswin32c -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -r600 -sOutputFile=(your file name) (your pdf file)

Adobe products suck.

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Reply to
Fred Abse

That could be the problem. I've had issues with ghostscript and page orientation. Seems to work differently depending upon the postscript file.

Cheers

Reply to
Martin Riddle

But older versions don't, I have both Acrobat 4 and Acrobat 7... they work just great. ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142   Skype: Contacts Only  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Reply to
Jim Thompson

Yup. Actually I've seen that myself... people sending me PostScript schematics and I had to adjust page size. ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142   Skype: Contacts Only  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Reply to
Jim Thompson

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^------- check!

Thanks for the tip!

Reply to
Robert Baer

Never thought of that; will check it out. Thanks.

Reply to
Robert Baer

I'm not impressed with Acrobat 6.0. It works, but has lots of features that "suck". It has some editing features, "commenting" they call it, which are all but impossible to use. I cringe when I have to mark up a PS document.

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rickman

Perhaps use something better than adobe reader?

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Jasen Betts

Run the file through Acrobat.

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Reply to
Don Lancaster

I had the same thing yesterday, viewing an A4 portrait in GSview, with media rotation accidentally turned on. Turning the media right way up fixed things.

Moral: If image orientation is right, media rotation might not be.

We all do silly things :-)

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Fred Abse

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