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Questions tagged [postscript]

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Good PostScript viewer for MacOS?

On OS X, is there a good application to open PS files without converting them to PDF? In addition, I want to associate PS.GZ files to this application, but retain the TAR.GZ association to my uncompressor. Is this feasible?
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Starting Preview without opening previous PostScript documents

I'm running the latest version of OS X and Preview is hanging whenever I try to start it. It attempts to open the documents which I previously had open, which is ~10 PDFs and ~3 PostScript files, and it seems to be permanently get stuck whilst…
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Looking for GSview for OSX

Does anyone know where I can find a copy of GSview that will run on OSX? I have already tried the following: I searched for a Homebrew recipe for GSview, but I didn't find one. (BTW, I already have the ghostscript-9.05 recipe installed; AFAICT,…
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Search for files that are NOT a specific kind on my Mac

I am trying to work out which fonts I have on my machine that are Type 1 Postscript fonts so I can avoid problems when Adobe stops supporting them next year. I have used kind:”type 1 outline font” which shows all of them but as I have so many fonts…
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Automatic conversion between .ps to .pdf upon download onto Mac OSX?

Is there any way to convert .ps to .pdf every time automatically as a .ps is downloaded onto a Mac machine? (Using Mountain Lion 10.8) can Automator perform this task? convert and then delete the .ps It's annoying that it has to convert from .ps…
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Can I remove the page breaks (or re-flow postscript documents) in PDF files?

I have a piece of software that formats source material and produces PDF files. These resulting files may be any length and are broken into pages according to a selected page size. (In other words, very standard paged output.) Since these files…
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Preview Bug with (Mountain) Lion -- hangs/crashes on repeat postscript openings

I have been able to duplicate this error on both Lion and Mountain Lion. Open a(n) (enhanced) post-script file (either .ps or .eps) using preview. It should convert properly to PDF and be displayed Open the same file a second (or a few more)…
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PostScript Driver issues: "ERROR: invalid font" - where to find font download (Softfont) options?

I'm having a problem with some documents printing on my Dell C2665dnf Color MFP on macOS 10.13.x and beyond (ie, including 10.14 Mojave betas). Sometimes a document only prints out: ERROR: invalidfont OFFENDING COMMAND: xshow STACK: [6.1116 13.4376…
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Relationship between OpenType fonts and PostScript printers, and impact on printing performance?

In the pre-OS X days, there was an important distinction between bitmap fonts and PostScript fonts, and between QuickDraw printers (the Mac equivalent of "Winprinters") and much more expensive PostScript printers. If you wanted to use a PostScript…
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Preview can't find fonts used in eps file generated by gnuplot

I am trying to use TimesNewRoman.ttf as the font for *.eps files generated by Gnuplot. I am running OS X 10.9.5 on a 2010 Macbook Pro. Here is my gnuplot script. set terminal postscript eps enhanced size 5,5 font 'TimesNewRoman.ttf,20' set output…
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Printing Error Error: invalidfont Ricoh Printer

I have a Ricoh Aficio MP 2000 printer. I have macOS Big Sur running on a Mac mini. It is possible to connect to the printer and print graphics, web pages, etc. But I have problems to print PDFs with embedded fonts. I always get Error: invalidfont. I…
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View PostScript documents in iOS?

I am looking for a way to view PostScript files in iOS. It appears that there's no built-in mechanism in iOS for the same. Also, I'm unable to find any viewer app on the App Store. While Safari for macOS supports viewing it, iOS version doesn't…
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Mac OS X pstopdf utility defaults to Letter page size

I am using the a2ps utility from Homebrew to pretty print code, generating .ps files, and then the Mac OS X utility pstopdf (used by Preview.app) to convert these to .pdf format. But whatever page size is specified in the PostScript, the generated…
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Unexpected Colour differences (MacBook Pro, OSX 10.11.6)

I wrote a postscript file including a blue (0,0,255) RGB and a yellow (255,255,0) RGB shapes. When viewed (in Preview) and according to the apple DigitalColor meter set to "native colours" mode, the colours are different: yellow becomes…
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Ricoh SP200 NW or installing PCL-6 like driver on Sierra

Is there any way to make this printer work? A long time ago I made it work it on Ubuntu with PCL-6 driver (I'm not sure about the name), is there similar driver for Sierra? I already tried IPP with universal PostScript driver but it doesn't…
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