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I have a MATLAB (R2024a) figure combining bar charts and filled contour plots (contourf) in a tiledlayout, with a semi-transparent grid overlay (GridAlpha) on the contour tiles. When exported with ...
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I have some not-so-old PostScript programs that create an animation using the copypage operator. See a simple example below [*]. They worked fine in macOS using Preview and pstopdf while Apple ...
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I am trying to write a simple PostScript program to display a logo using the 'image' function (rather than the 'colorimage'). The PostScript code is very simple. I have tried reading the file, I have ...
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My initial problem was: How can I use my Mac's system fonts in a PostScript file; that is, a font that is NOT among the standard 35 (?) PostScript fonts. It is no longer my problem because I stumbled ...
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I have an old script from a few years ago I've been trying to migrate over to the latest version of Ghostscript. Its main job is to print checks. $AccountingScalingArgs = "<</BeginPage{0....
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From the official pdfmark documentation I copy-pasted into a file named example.ps: [ /NamespacePush pdfmark [ /_objdef {fstream} /type /stream /OBJ pdfmark [ {fstream} << /Type ...
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I use Ghostscript to create PDFs from PostScript files. Starting in June, there is an obligation to create accessible PDFs (PDF/UA-Standard). The closest related post how to make Accessibiity pdf from ...
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I'm working on a web application (Vue.js) that removes backgrounds from images. An important component is exporting EPS files with clipping paths that are correctly recognized in Adobe Photoshop. The ...
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I've been coding in PostScript for a couple of months, and I'm wondering how one would implement namespaces, and use libraries. As usual, the idea is to address: name collisions keeping separate ...
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Contrary to regular PostScript (PS) files, some comments in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file have a special meaning. For example, they must start with %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 and have a special %%...
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The pdf2dsc utility from Ghostscript generates a .dsc file consisting of a PostScript page list of a PDF document. How can such a file be distinguished from a real PostScript document? The issue is ...
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In PostScript, I'm trying to get a precise bounding box for rendered text. I believe I'm using the built-in PostScript operators correctly, but the results are unexpected. The outline doesn't match ...
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I'm trying to parse an Adobe Illustrator file, which in essence is a postscript file with additional comments for structure, it even starts with %PS-Adobe (after extracting it out of the PDF "...
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I'm using Ghostscript to convert PDF to PDF/A files, which works fine. I want to use the -dSAFER option, which forces me to use absolute path name for the ICCProfile in the file PDFA_def.ps: % in the ...
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I am not sure I understand the semantics of Postscript dictionaries. What is the difference if a 'def' is used when defining an entry to a dictionary as opposed to just listing the key value pair. ...
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I have a pdf with a Pages dictionary like this << /Type /Pages /Kids [ 5 0 R 142 0 R 225 0 R 296 0 R 302 0 R 308 0 R 314 0 R 4 0 R 336 0 R ] /Count 9 ...
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Well I wanted to draw a "point" in PostScript (ghostscript 9.52) (using 1 setlinecap), so I tried (after 36 dup translate and 4 setlinewidth): 0 dup moveto stroke But nothing appeared. ...
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The REALTIME operator is supposed to output the time in miliseconds. I want to use that as a seed for RAND, but the output is always a two digit number between 24 and 31. How am I misunderstanding the ...
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I am trying to write a postscript document that will output strings of 5 random characters. I can make an array of 26 upper case letter A-Z, but I cannot work out how to concatenate five random ...
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The following PostScript code generates the y axis of a diagram. I just need the charpath for getting the bounding box of the text to align it. How can I prevent the charpath from being be shown? %!PS ...
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Want to print a raster of circles in a rectangular frame. Found example of one loop, worked fine. Added a second loop inside, no good; I only get a single column of circles. Suggestions welcome! % ...
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In a CMap file (for use in PostScript or PDF documents), is it allowed to have CID ranges where the start end end codes differ in more than the last byte? For example, would the following be valid? 1 ...
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I have an Fortran application that can output PostScript files. When trying to read in the files using the ghost4j library, I get the following error ERROR: %%EOF not found. File is not well-formed. ...
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I am trying to add pages to PDFs in the format page out of total_num_pages, I have about 100K documents to process, so I need to figure out a way to do this with many documents. I have a batch file ...
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I have a ghost command that gets PGB PDF as input and generates CMYK PDF. What I need to achive is to make the text overprinted, so when I open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat -> Use print production ->...
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/myDict<< /myProc { (Hello world) = } >>def myDict begin %A myProc %A end %A myDict /myProc get exec %B Given the above Postscript ...
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I'm trying to use ps2pdf to convert a Postscript file to PDF, but the Postscript file has a UTF-8 character in it which is not rendered properly. We have a website with a database, where users can ...
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I have a program that writes Postscript code to draw various diagrams using a Postscript graphics library. I would like to know in the main program what the actual size (height and length) of the text ...
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A user has smooth mathematical functions X[z] and Y[z] which define a smooth path over a range of z. My use case is that these functions define an Archimedes spiral, but the question can be more ...
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The PostScript command arc can draw circles, and part circles. Adobe Distiller draws angles ≤90° as a single Bézier cubic. How accurate is this; how can it be made more accurate? Similar content to ...
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Ghostscript has the debug option INITDEBUG which outputs this: END PROCS 0 1523912 211486 1330832 36164 true 662 3 <0> gs_std_e.ps 0 1523912 217533 1330832 38644 true 670 3 <0> gs_il1_e.ps ...
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I am writing a quiz generator, started using HTML which turns out to be hard to deterministically decide where things will be. So I am going to use postscript. When I write out a question, and the box ...
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Say I have the attached pdf with eight A6 (i.e., 105 x 74.25 mm) pages (marked, e.g., A A' B B' C C' D D'), I want to make a pdf with two A5 (i.e., 210 x 148.5 mm) page that can be two-sided printed. ...
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I came to knew from one thread "ghostscript ps pdfmark command /BDC for content tagging (PDF/UA and WCAG 2.0)" that it is possible to create Accessibility PDF from postscript file. is there ...
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I am using Ghostscript 10.02.0 to convert a PDF to a PNG with the following command: gs -o ./test.png -dNumRenderingThreads=1 -sDEVICE=png16m -r72 -dLastPage=1 -dFitPage -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=125 -...
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I want to generate an eps file (.eps) that contains vector data rather than rasterized data. I am trying to do so by converting a postscript file (.ps) into an eps file using ps2eps like so: ps2eps ...
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I have PDF with different fonts embedded. One of them is color emoji font. For some unknown reason the font with emoji crashes my printing software. The only way I found is to convert all fonts to ...
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I am currently working on a project where I need to embed fonts into an existing PDF file that has some fonts that are not embedded. My primary goal is to ensure that all fonts used in the PDF are ...
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In a sense, I'm asking how psnup works. Say I have an existing document that follows the document structuring conventions. I can scan it, pull out the prolog, trailer, and individual pages. I want to ...
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I produce two postscript files runing metapost on the file example.mp containing: beginfig(1); u=1cm; draw (2u,2u)--(0,0)--(0,3u)--(3u,0)--(0,0); pickup pencircle scaled 4pt; for i=0 upto 2: for j=0 ...
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I'm looking for a step-by-step guide to create a PDF file with sample text, referencing fonts of type "CID TrueType", while not having those fonts embedded. For context, I'm debugging a ...
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I have a PostScript file with a shfill in it that views fine in tools such as gv and converts fine to png using ghostscript however the shfill disappears when using ps2pdf on Linux (which uses gs ...
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Using Pillow 9.5.0, Python 3.11.4, Tk 8.6, and Windows 11 (version 22H2) On the program i'm working on, I have a tkinter canvas that saves a postscript file, which is then imported into a PIL Image ...
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In PostScript, once a path is defined, one can stroke it with the current linewidth. I imagine a pen of that width drawn along the path to create the line, the "ink" from this pen is ...
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I wish a PostScript file to be able to behave differently depending on whether it's going to a screen (via ghostscript) or to a (hardware) printer (with or without Ghostscript). I'm thinking of things ...
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I want to be able to run some arbitrary PostScript code, and find out what its bounding box is, for the purpose of centering and/or scaling that PostScript code when I run it again. This needs to all ...
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I am trying to make pdf's manually. I got the basics but the one thing I cannot figure out is images. The thing I am trying right now, as a start, is adding a simple image in the form of binary code. ...
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As part of my current project, I am creating an app in C# to generate multi-page invoices in PDF format. I also merge 100 invoices into a single PDF file using the PDFSharp library. However, I am ...
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I modify my pdf structure adding this: /F1 << /Type /Font /Subtype /TrueType /BaseFont /MyFont /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding /FontDescriptor 3 0 R /FirstChar 32 /LastChar 255 >> Then, I ...
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I have this Label definition in postscript: /Label { % i dx dy (text) Label % write text at base i plus offset dx, dy 4 3 roll 1 sub coor exch get aload pop moveto 3 1 roll fsize mul exch fsize mul ...

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