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Re: postscript

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg24787] Re: postscript
• From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh at wolfram.com>
• Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:32:36 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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On 9 Aug 2000, Martin Richter wrote:

> Has anyone succeeded in plotting graphics to a postscript file
> Display["c:/data/test.ps", plot1]
> 
> gives a ghostview error
> 
> Loaded Ghostscript DLL C:\Aladdin\gs6.0\bin\gsdll32.dll
> Aladdin Ghostscript 6.0 (2000-02-03)
> Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights
> reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Displaying non DSC file C:/data/tester1.ps
> Unrecoverable error: undefined in MathPictureStart
> 
> --- Begin offending input ---
> 
> --- End offending input ---
> file offset = 1024
> gsdll_execute_cont returns -21

Try adding the third argument "EPS" to your command.  The two-argument
form of Display[] generates abbreviated Mathematica PostScript which is
not readily understood by standard PostScript interpreters.

-- 
P.J. Hinton
User Interface Programmer                         paulh at wolfram.com
Wolfram Research, Inc.
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