It seems the PostScript documentation has bounding box issues; Ghostscript only shows the upper left corner of the page, and the Acrobat Distiller distills it in the upper left corner of a letter-size page. Unfortunately, the first release of the OpenMotif source code seems to come bereft of the documentation source (if I recall, the Motif 2.0 source distribution included doc source and tools to compile it). Such source would be useful, not only to fix the docs, but also to distribute them in different file formats and paper sizes. Also, anybody know what the OM license says about redistribution of documentation in a form other than that provided; I`d much rather have PDF than PostScript, for example, and I`d be happy to distill it if I can either fix the PostScript or get correct code or source, but, can I distribute the PDFs under the terms of TOG`s license? And, no, I haven`t RTFL yet (only agreed to be bound by it ); I`ll get around to it, I was planning on R`ing the FM first, but the FM won`t F print or display correctly.
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jasomill
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Anonymous
PS documentation size / source
It seems the documentation prints fine (aside from odd behaviour around and about bullet lists e.g. page 5 of the PG) on my PostScript Level 3 printer, but that doesn`t account for my results with Distiller and GhostScript. GS I can understand, but Distiller, which supposedly contains an "official" Adobe PS interpreter, should behave. Anybody else try this stuff?
PS The only reason I want to do this is so I can manually duplex the documentation; PSutils craps out and writes the whole file as zero pages -- no DSC and all that -- though the header comments make me wonder whether the documentation is indeed Level 3 PS. Another reason for source code -- not everybody buys a new printer every year.
Mark
PS documentation size / source
Try using psutils. That should make the documentation viewable in ghostscript.
In the next update, the postscript documentation will be replaced with pdf and this problem should go away.
Regards
Mark
Anonymous
PS documentation size / source
How is this done?
I know that the PostScript docs violates against the PS DSC 3.0 Standard from Adobe. The files are marked as EPSF but they use the command showpage, which is forbidden for EPSF. Take at look into the "Red Book".
Without a correct DSC 3.0 Header the psutils tools can`t process the PS docs. So, how can I few the Docs? Printing doesn`t work, the pages doesn`t fit to A4 sheets.
Anonymous
PS documentation size / source
It looks like PDF documentation has appeared several hours ago at the Open Motif ftp site (ftp//openmotif.opengroup.org/pub/openmotif/R2.1.30/tars). I`m downloading it now to see if those problems have been fixed.
Mark
PS documentation size / source
We packaging up the PDF`s and will post them within the next day or so. It will take some time to migrate out to the mirrors, so you might want to try the Northeast site first (that`s us) when we post them.
Mark