white lines generate PostScript errors on some printers

[karlmsmith]

Reported by steven.c.hankin on 20 Jul 2000 23:47 UTC Billy Kesseler reported:

Subject: white lettering (pen 19) problem

Hi Steve -

The use of the white pen in a label command (label ... @c019text) seems to produce problems when converted to postscript with Fprint. It prints ok on my office printer, but rainbow barfs on it, complaining about the "aload" statement in the postscript. Similarly distill comes up with the same error (badwhitelettering.ps was made by Fprint from a ferret metafile with the -l ps option):

distill badwhitelettering.ps Distilling badwhitelettering.ps (968,346 bytes) %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: aload ]%%

Stack: -null-

%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% 1.0 seconds (0:01)

Any idea what this is about?

Billy

-============== Hi Steve -

I am confused. I cannot duplicate this error, at least the distill part of it. I haven't tried printing to rainbow and going up there to see what comes out.

I do know that simply changing the argument to @c0NN from 19 to 13 made the difference yesterday between a printout and an error message. And I tried it twice.

Unfortunately my script calls a few other scripts and is full of my aliases and would be a pain to rework for you to be able to run. So I don't know where to go from here. Also, I don't walk well enough to run back and forth to rainbow.

Billy

Migrated-From: http://dunkel.pmel.noaa.gov/trac/ferret/ticket/99

[karlmsmith]

Comment by @AnsleyManke on 3 Nov 2003 23:14 UTC Assign to Ansley

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Adding @AndrewWittenberg