[Malvern] Postscript.

[Guy Inchbald]

Geoff Bagley <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com> writes
>
>I have been trying to learn about the graphics language Postcript.
>
>I have been writing various small test programs,  and they can all be
>screened  visually  on  X  by using Ghostview or kGhostview.
>
>However ,  if I type  "lpr  filename.ps"  on the command line,  some of the
>progs  get printed out graphically,  but other just get the   Postscript
>source-code listed !
>
>By the way,  I use CUPS as my print system.  The printer  (a  HP  lj1300) is
>said to be  Postscript friendly
>
>I cannot determine what's causing this.  Everything else seems to be the same
>between each.   I would like to be able to test  and debug them  visually,
>and then  print out the graphics once I get it right.
>
>This  problem  cropped up today for the first time, and I am baffled.
>
>Anyone out there tried this ?

No, but as a complete ignoramus my first instinct is to look for space 
characters at the end of lines, in case Ghostview is ignoring them but 
the printer driver is barfing on them. They won't show up in a text 
listing if they are at the end of a line...

Cheers,
Guy