Re: problems printing in Mathematica 3
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- Subject: [mg18293] Re: problems printing in Mathematica 3
- From: paulh at wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:05:33 -0400
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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In article <7ktv93$97v at smc.vnet.net>, Henrik Weimer <henrik at rice.edu> writes: > I am unable to figure out how to print a notebook in Mathematica 3.0.1 > on both IRIX and Solaris. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. In > particular, whenever I really depend on a printout, Mathematica fails > consistently :-) > > What I do is the following: Look at a notebook in the front end, go to > file, print, select "print to file". The resulting PostScript file is > broken. An example of this can be found here > > http://www.cs.rice.edu/~henrik/ch3.nb.ps > > When I look at the file it seems to contain mirrored output of part of > the page. > > Thanks for any hint on how to fix this. The problems is that the X front end writes out a bunch of extraneous PostScript code before the magic cookie line %!PS-Adobe-2.0 that tells a printer this is a PostScript program. The workaround is to set up your front end's printing shell command to pipe the code emitted by the front end through a filter that eats the extraneous lines. The following FAQ entry at the Technical Support website should guide you through the process of fixing the problem. http://support.wolfram.com/Systems/Unix/FE/CleanPS.html -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.