i am a postscript virgin! someone please help!

[andy24]

Does anyone know what is wrong with the following file - why it will not display in ghostview? I have pasted an abstract of the file. I have VERY little knowledge of postscript and am doing this as part of a project at work. We have captured the output of the parallel port and are trying to save this information as a file instead of printing them. The device printing cannot print to file as it is a standalone unit with no means of outputting the data other than printing. If anyone could help on this matter it would be greatly appreciated. I realise the formatting is incorrect, but i think that is part of the problem we are facing in being able to view the page in ghostview.

Thanks in advance

Kind regards

Andrew Fernando

%!PS-Adobe-2.0 2%%BoundingBox: (atend)%%Pages: (atend)%%DocumentFonts: (atend)%%EndComments%% TIS PostScript Prolog%/PSBEGINPAGE {% /save_page save def% gsave moveto} def/PSENDPAGE {% grestore% save_page restore showpage} def/PSFONTDEFINE16 { findfont exch scalefont dup setfont} bind def/PSFONTDEFINE_S { findfont exch scalefont setfont} bind def/PSFONTDEFINE { dup dup NewEncoding ReEncodeSmall findfont exch scalefont setfont} bind def/PSFONTDEFINESYMBOL { dup dup NewEncodingSymbol ReEncodeSmall findfont exch scalefont setfont} bind def/S { moveto show} bind def/PSLINE { gsave newpath setlinewidth moveto lineto stroke grestore} def /PSRECT { gsave newpath setlinewidth moveto rlineto rlineto rlineto closepath stroke grestore} def/PSFOOTLINE16 { /saveobj save def PSLINE moveto show moveto show moveto show saveobj restore} def/pageAll 5 def/PSFOOTLINE { /saveobj save def PSLINE PSFONTDEFINE moveto show moveto show moveto show moveto show moveto show moveto show pageAll 10 string cvs show saveobj restore} def/PSFOOTLINE_S { /saveobj save def PSLINE PSFONTDEFINE_S moveto show moveto show moveto show moveto show moveto show moveto show pageAll 10 string cvs show saveobj restore} def/bitdump % stk: width, height, iscalex, iscaley, depth% dump a bit image with lower left corner at current origin,% scaling by iscalex and iscaley (iscale=1 means 1/300 inch per pixel){ % read arguments /depth exch def /iscaley exch def /iscalex exch def /height exch def /width exch def % scale appropriately width iscalex mul height iscaley mul scale % allocate .notdef for one scanline of input /picstr % picstr holds one scan line width 7 add 8 idiv % width of image in bytes = ceiling(width/8) string def % read and dump the image width height depth [width 0 0 height neg 0 height] { currentfile picstr readhexstring pop } image} def% Font-Define/reencsmalldict 12 dict def/ReEncodeSmall {reencsmalldict begin /newcodesandnames exch def /newfontname exch def /basefontname exch def /basefontdict basefontname findfont def /newfont basefontdict maxlength dict def basefontdic { exch dup /FID ne { dup /Encoding eq { exch dup length array copy newfont 3 1 roll put } { exch newfont 3 1 roll put } ifelse } { pop pop } ifelse } forall newfont /FontName newfontname put newcodesandnames aload pop newcodesandnames length 2 idiv { newfont /Encoding get 3 1 roll put} repeat newfontname newfont definefont pop end} def /NewEncoding [144 /dotlessi145 /grave146 /acute147 /circumflex148 /tilde150 /breve151 /dotaccent154 /ring157 /hungarumlaut158 /ogonek159 /caron161 /exclamdown162 /cent163 /sterling164 /currency165 /yen166 /brokenbar167 /section168 /dieresis169 /copyright170 /ordfeminine171 /guillemotleft172 /logicalnot173 /hyphen174 /registered175 /macron176 /degree177 /plusminus178 /twosuperior179 /threesuperior180 /acute181 /mu182 /paragraph183 /periodcentered184 /cedilla185 /onesuperior186 /ordmasculine187 /guillemotright188 /onequarter189 /onehalf190 /threequarters191 /questiondown192 /Agrave193 /Aacute194 /Acircumflex195 /Atilde196 /Adieresis197 /Aring198 /AE199 /Ccedilla200 /Egrave201 /Eacute202 /Ecircumflex203 /Edieresis204 /Igrave205 /Iacute206 /Icircumflex207 /Idieresis208 /Eth209 /Ntilde210 /Ograve211 /Oacute212 /Ocircumflex213 /Otilde214 /Odieresis215 /multiply216 /Oslash217 /Ugrave218 /Uacute219 /Ucircumflex220 /Udieresis221 /Yacute222 /Thorn223 /germandbls224 /agrave225 /aacute226 /acircumflex227 /atilde228 /adieresis229 /aring230 /ae231 /ccedilla232 /egrave233 /eacute234 /ecircumflex235 /edieresis236 /igrave237 /iacute238 /icircumflex239 /idieresis240 /eth241 /ntilde242 /ograve243 /oacute244 /ocircumflex245 /otilde246 /odieresis247 /divide248 /oslash249

 

[HamishZA]

I cut your text out and put it in a text file which I then Distilled. Distiller produced an empty job- without looking at it carefully, and I'm no expert either, I'm guessing that there are no PS commands in there which actually do any marking?

Distiller doesn't complain at all about the PS code, so it's error free from a syntax point of view. Just doesn't seem to do any page marking.

 

[tgreer]

Your code isn't a complete program. It is a lot of definitions, none of which ever get used.

Thomas D. Greer

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