How to fix up Macintosh LaserWriter 6.0-generated ps files for public
consumption.  (This has already been done to the xvdocs.ps and xvtitle.ps
files.)

--jhb 4/24/92

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Date:     Mon, 13 Jan 1992 22:44 PDT
From: WAMPLER@daq.semi.harris.com (Kurt Wampler)
To: bradley@grip.cis.upenn.edu
Subject:  Re: xv 2.0 PostScript docs 

John -

You can ignore the previous message I sent to you 5 or 6 hours ago.  After
continuing to hack on the Mac-generated PostScript, I finally nursed it into
printing on our SPARCprinter.  The tweaks required to make it print
correctly on the SPARCprinter did not exactly match the tweaks described in
your standard response, nor did they match any of the other helpful advice
posted in alt.graphics.pixutils over the past few days.

- I ran with the original prologue.
- I did the 8-bit filtering.
- I wrapped all long source lines at 255 bytes.
- I eliminated all font downloads, (bounded by "%%BeginFont" and "%%EndFont"
  comments, including the "bu fc" line after the "%%EndFont".
- I changed the "patterncachesize patterncachelimit div" to "1 1 div" in
  the patternpath macro.

It was worth the effort -- the documentation is well structured and easy to
read.  My hat's off -- both the documentation and the xv program itself are
excellent work.  (Wish I could say the same about the PostScript generated
on your Mac.  Rarely have I seen such ill-structured PostScript.)

Anyway, thanks for your original help, and feel free to pass any of the above
tweaks on to other people trying to get the documentation to print.

Kurt Wampler
Harris Semiconductor
408-996-5426
