On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 12:56 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> I had occasion to print a PCB design from PCB, and discovered (to the
> cost of a tree or two), that the print option from my (CVS) version of
> PCB will not be interpreted by the printer as postscript, rather, as
> text (lots of text).
>
> If I export to .ps then lpr -P printer_name output_name.ps, it prints
> fine.
>
> Is there some difference between printing direct from PCB, and via a .ps
> file?
Replying to own post to add more detail. I tried printing with command
cat > foo.ps
inst_amp.ps was produced with the .ps export option
There is a difference in the output is below.
Obviously the lack of header is what is causing the printers to print
text rather than graphics.
I'm not sure what the other changes signify, however I did try to set
the options in the print dialog + exporter to match.
Should / do the print and ps export share code. I would have thought
they were 99.99% similar.
Regards,
Peter Clifton
--- foo.ps 2006-11-29 13:30:30.000000000 +0000
+++ inst_amp.ps 2006-11-29 13:30:12.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+%!PS-Adobe-3.0
+
%%Page: 1
/Times-Roman findfont 24 scalefont setfont
/rightshow { /s exch def s stringwidth pop -1 mul 0 rmoveto s show }
def
@@ -10937,23 +10939,15 @@
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