Re: flexfax: Postscript at 5% size in email attachment

[Ben Parker <ben@dha.unon.org>]

This is/will be documented in the new docs. The dumbest workaround is to
attach the same .ps file twice to the same message, then it comes out once
tiny and once full size on the next page but clobbers your tranmit time,
presumably. In my limited experiments, I found that Postscript code varies
so much, it is not possible to write a filter that inserts the "showpage"
in the right place for every kind of ps file. 

Ben




On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Hugh Caley wrote:

> I couldn't get a message to this fellow, so I'm posting it on the
> list...
> 
> Hugh
> _______________________________________________________________
> Glad to get some response!  OK, I am attaching a postscript file to my
> mail
> message.  When I open up doc139.ps (or whatever it is called), and go
> down to
> the end of the text of my message, it usually ends abruptly and the
> Postscript
> header for the attachment starts.  I insert it on the next line below
> the last
> line of the text of the message.
> 
> For instance, if I attache the 'tiger.ps' example file from the
> ghostscript
> distribution, I put the showpage just before :
> 
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2
> %%Creator: Adobe Illustrator(TM) 1.2d4
> %%For: OpenWindows Version 2
> %%Title: tiger.eps
> %%CreationDate: 4/12/90 3:20 AM
> %%DocumentProcSets: Adobe_Illustrator_1.2d1 0 0
> %%DocumentSuppliedProcSets: Adobe_Illustrator_1.2d1 0 0
> %%BoundingBox: 22 171 567 738
> %%EndComments
> 
> Let me know what happens with you!
> 
> Hugh
> 
> Gernot Kerschbaumer wrote:
> 
> > > I am having this problem and I think I see what the problem is: a
> > > "showpage" command should be inserted after the body of the text of
> the
> >
> > where do you exactly insert this command? i couldn't repeat your fix.
> >
> > > If I take a ps file that has this problem and manually insert a
> > > "showpage" before the second page commences it comes out right, with
> the
> >
> > maybe, but where exactly? i tried it at several locations which seemed
> to me
> > the begin of the second page or the end of the body of text.
> > i got no image at all after inserting 'showpage'.
> >
> > --
> > gernot kerschbaumer
> > student of computer science at the technical university of vienna,
> austria
> > email: e9018967@stud2.tuwien.ac.at
> > homepage: http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e9018967/
> 
> 
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