Re: PostGhost Fonts (and the Euro)

[John junja@xxxxxxxx]

Something similar to the A4 printing bug afflicts
Xy III+. The strategy I use for getting round it
is, IIRC, resetting page length for the 2nd &
subsequent pages.
(I've never - to speak of - printed to letter size
paper so can't comment on that).
John


Correo Fenda wrote:
> Robert Holmgren wrote:
> > > Let me remind you of the A4 XyWrite bug.
> >
> >
> >
> > Memory fails me. Could you repeat the details? A bug in XyWrite or GS?
> It's an old XyWrite4 bug, never fixed. Maybe from the first version of
> XyWrite4 (or one of the first revisions) I needed to put a PB82 (a
> command to instruct XyWrite to process the 82 printer code, thus
> restoring the A4 size) at the beginning of every file if I didn't want
> to suffer a vertical displacement of the text on the page (an extra
> blank space at the top of every page). It's common practice for me and
> it doesn't bother me. I submitted this problem to TTG many years ago
> without obtaining any solution. But, using PostGhost 850 or 1252, the
> problem gets worse. First page is OK (note that it's not the case if I
> am not using PostGhost). The problem starts now from the second page on.
> When I attempt to fix it using my classical trick, the PB82 is not
> effective beyond the first page of the output file I am previewing in
> GhostView. The only solution is:
> 1. A PB82 code at the beginning of every file.
> 2. It's necessary to reload SETTINGS.DFL inside XyWrite with a last line
> like this: DF JB=82 (this DF entry is not necessary to solve the problem
> in my usual ansified or standard XyWrite configuration).
> Obviously, the SETTINGS.DFL/ANSETNGS.DFL is already read when XyWrite
> starts but I can't say how the DF JB=82 is overwritten once the program
> starts.
> Last February we were attempting to solve this issue without any
> success. Obviously, no problem at all if I use Letter page size. Are yo
> able to reproduce this behavior?
> By the way: what versions of GhostScript/GhostView are you currently
> using? Maybe it's time to update my versions.
> Best regards,
> Manuel Castelao