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Message no. 1
From: Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: NERPS Printing problems
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 20:12:31 +0930
*sigh* It's been a bad day.

Anyway, now that I've got that off my chest: Well, as I announced (along
with many others), Ghostview wouldn't read my ShadowLore file properly.

I went it, bit the bullet, started finding out how Ghostview works. Here's
the story (far as I could figure out): Ghostview doesn't look at the fonts
provided in the file, it just looks at names, makes guesses, or just plain
barfs when it sees them. So the columns (in Ghostview) looked like they
overlap. Print a page via Ghostview, and they are overlapped.

Eventually, when I got round to learning how to use gs (ghostscript), I
found that the columns weren't overlapped. Upon examination of the file
with the aid of a local Postscript Guru, I found the fonts were already
included in the file. (Weird, uh??). As a result, if I just did a straight
dump to the printer, it worked. I've got it printing as I speak.

My advice to those people having trouble: If you're not sure, print just
the first 5 pages. (Open up the file. Look for the string '%%Page: ? 6' by
itself, delete everything below and including that line. Save. Print)

If the last page has the columns overlapping, you've got a problem. If
it won't print at all, it was most likely a download error. Try again.

(Now I've got to figure out why they are overlapped on my Mac at home.
*ponder*)

--
Robert Watkins bob@**.ntu.edu.au
Real Programmers never work 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9 am,
it's because they were up all night.
Message no. 2
From: Joshua James Harrison <harrij4@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: NERPS Printing problems
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 19:38:54 -0400
On Apr 28, 8:12pm, Robert Watkins wrote:
> Subject: Re: NERPS Printing problems
> *sigh* It's been a bad day.
>
> Anyway, now that I've got that off my chest: Well, as I announced (along
> with many others), Ghostview wouldn't read my ShadowLore file properly.
[stuff deleted for brevity]
> My advice to those people having trouble: If you're not sure, print just
> the first 5 pages. (Open up the file. Look for the string '%%Page: ? 6' by
> itself, delete everything below and including that line. Save. Print)
>
> If the last page has the columns overlapping, you've got a problem. If
> it won't print at all, it was most likely a download error. Try again.

Tried this as soon as I got the message... my problem is that it prints fine
up to page 4, and then stops printing. Page 5 is in the file (I checked), but
it will not be printed. It just stops.

I know that if I can get past page 4, everything will be fine. I have
downloaded the file four times now, and I've had the same problem everytime...
I have an idea about what I can do, so let me try that out... but it doesn't
look very promising. *sigh*

I'll let you guys know what happens...


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aka A.M. Hawke | o menel palan-diriel, | \ \ | / /
Internet: | le nallon si di'nguruthos! | \ \ | / /
harrij4@***.edu | A tiro nin, Fanuilos! | --- O O ---
------------------------------------------------------------| / C \
'Now come, you filth!' he cried. 'You've hurt my master, | / m\_/m \
you brute, and you'll pay for it. We're going on; but we'll |---------------
settle with you first. Come on, and taste it again!' - Sam, "The Two Towers"
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Message no. 3
From: Jonathan Smith <jsmith@**********.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: NERPS Printing problems
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 04:32:36 -0400
On Thu, 28 Apr 1994, Joshua James Harrison wrote:

> On Apr 28, 8:12pm, Robert Watkins wrote:
> > Subject: Re: NERPS Printing problems
> > *sigh* It's been a bad day.
> >
> > Anyway, now that I've got that off my chest: Well, as I announced (along
> > with many others), Ghostview wouldn't read my ShadowLore file properly.
> [stuff deleted for brevity]
> > My advice to those people having trouble: If you're not sure, print just
> > the first 5 pages. (Open up the file. Look for the string '%%Page: ? 6' by
> > itself, delete everything below and including that line. Save. Print)
> >
> > If the last page has the columns overlapping, you've got a problem. If
> > it won't print at all, it was most likely a download error. Try again.
>
> Tried this as soon as I got the message... my problem is that it prints fine
> up to page 4, and then stops printing. Page 5 is in the file (I checked), but
> it will not be printed. It just stops.
>
> I know that if I can get past page 4, everything will be fine. I have
> downloaded the file four times now, and I've had the same problem everytime...
> I have an idea about what I can do, so let me try that out... but it doesn't
> look very promising. *sigh*
>
> I'll let you guys know what happens...
>
>
> --
> Josh Harrison | A Elbereth Gilthoniel | "The
Hedgehog"
> aka A.M. Hawke | o menel palan-diriel, | \ \ | / /
> Internet: | le nallon si di'nguruthos! | \ \ | / /
> harrij4@***.edu | A tiro nin, Fanuilos! | --- O O ---
> ------------------------------------------------------------| / C \
> 'Now come, you filth!' he cried. 'You've hurt my master, | / m\_/m \
> you brute, and you'll pay for it. We're going on; but we'll |---------------
> settle with you first. Come on, and taste it again!' - Sam, "The Two
Towers"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> GE/T/O d++(--) -p+ c+(++) l u e+ m+(-) s+/ !n h f+(*) !g w+@ t+@ r(+) y?
>


Well If anyone is interested I've managed to get the file mostly
converted to wordperfect (yeah I know..).. When its finished if anyone
wants a copy your welcome to it.. It will not be Identical but text and
tables and such; ie all the information will be there :)

Jonathan Smith.

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