postscript error

john boyden boyden at astro.ucla.edu
Thu Feb 16 08:02:31 PST 2006


> john boyden wrote:
> > I've written a postscript program that has always worked
> > with ghostview, any postscript printer, adobe acrobat,
> > pstopdf, etc.  The astronomy department at UCLA has installed
> > CUPS to keep track of the number of pages printed by the
> > department as well as the other advantages of CUPS.  My
> > problem is that CUPS introduces it's postscript into my
> > program which causes a postscript error.  I've found a
> > workaround, -o raw from linux which requires me to copy my
> > postscript file to a linux computer before printing but this
> > defeats the number of pages requirement.  Here is what the
> > printer error looks like:
> >
> > ERROR: undefined
> > OFFENDING COMMAND: ESPwl "ESPwl" COMMAND TYPE: nametype
>  > ...
>
> More than likely your PostScript file is claiming DSC conformance
> (via the "%!PS-Adobe-" header on the file) but is, in fact, not
> conforming.  This isn't an issue if you are just viewing the file
> or sending it straight to a low-end PS printer, but any printer or
> printing system that manipulates the file will likely fail without
> the DSC conformance.
>
> If you can post a URL to a sample file, we can take a quick look and
> see what is happening...
>
> --
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