ps.map

[Malcolm Williamson]

Philip,
If you haven't already done so, you need to create a device file under
$GISBASE/etc/paint/ps.devices, similar to the one in the ps.select manual
entry, and call it something like "paintjet.75". The example in the manual
should be a reasonable starting point, if the XL300 supports PostScript level 2:

level: 2
page width: 8.5
page height: 11.0
top margin: 0.5
bottom margin: 0.5
left margin: 0.25
right margin: 0.25
resolution: 75

You can then select it (ps.select paintjet.75) and run ps.map. The output
postscript file will be written with the parameters set in the device file;
you must manually send it to your printer. You can adjust margins, resolution,
etc., to suit your printer.

Let me know if this clears things up for you.

> 
> Dear GRASSHoppers,
> 
> We recently acquired a PostScript cartridge for our HP Paintjet XL300, 
> and I was hoping that I would finally be able to produce good-looking 
> maps with ps.map. The initial output looked good, but was by no means 
> scaled. I then installed the updates 1,2 and 3 to see if this would help, 
> but to my surprise the only thing my printer says now is:
> 
> OFFENDING COMMAND: NaN
> 
> and goes on producing pages of offending commands. Obviously I'm doing 
> something wrong. I looked at the postscript drivers in the source code: the 
> only ones I could find (color.ps and grey.ps from the SCS) look just like
> ordinary p.map device-files, and not at all like the kind of file that is
> presented in the manual with ps.select. Can someone tell me how to install
> the ps.map utilities in a more productive way? Thanks!
> 
> Philip Verhagen
> -- 

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