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#PPage Postscript Woes

    10-Feb-91 00:00:19
Fm: Christopher Tolmie 73657,3335
To: [F] Arno 73657,2104
Andrew, I tried to output J.R. Bookwalter's PPage files on my Varityper 4300P, using an Amiga 2000 equipped with the GVP '030 and 4MB of 32 bit memory, along with 4MB of 16-bit memory and 2MB of chip memory. I had trouble using PPAGE and the PAR: port. Apparently there was a postscript error and since the program can't receive the feedback messages from the PostScript interpreter it merrily keeps trying to send its Postscript program while the printer happily times-out and resets to idle. All the Amiga PostScript programs need the ability to receive these error messages and display them to the operator. This means using the Serial port or an appletalk port if so equipped since the parallel port is only one way, to the device not back to the computer. Plus for some reason I could not output one of JR's files! I was successful during setup when I printed a test page to paper. But from then on I kept getting the message. PostScript error limitcheck eofill. Apparently the postscript file was written wrong somewhere along the line. I know my typesetter has 12 MB of memory so it isn't lacking in that dept. I examined the one file that printed against the other three separations and noticed a few numbers being different in the beginprocess