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Re: [Groff] Color and older PS printers
From: |
Stewart Russell |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Color and older PS printers |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:34:36 -0400 |
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(Ted Harding) wrote:
One thing to consider is that
setcmykcolor
...
are Level-2 PS colour-relevant commands, while
I have attached a small PS test file that generates a test page that:
* shows the postscript vendor/version
* shows the languagelevel
* draws a 100 x 150 mm box for printer scale measurement.
I really wrote it for the last function (laser printers are typically
within ±1%*), as laser proofs of books have to be within known
tolerances. Printers with bigger imaging drums tend to be more accurate.
Stewart
*: then of course you get the doughnut who proofed a PDF on their laser
printer with *shrink to fit* on, and then had that wacko size signed off
for publication. The fuss I had to put up with to recreate those pages ...
--
foreach(split('',"\3\3\3c>\0>c\177cc\0~c~``\0cc\177cc"))
{$_=unpack('B8',$_);tr,01,\40#,;print$_,"\n";}##IYDKINT!
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