Thanks for your ideas, Ted:

On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 19:40:38 -0000 (GMT), (Ted Harding) wrote:

Then try a) viewing the PS file in ghostscipt/ghostview/gv ; if this works try printing it from gv. If it doesn't work, are there pages which you can print to file which do work? b) try printing the PS straight: lpr file.ps

GV wouldn't view the FILE.PS generated by Acrobat. I got this message:

[ GNU Ghostscript 5.50 (2000-2-13) [ Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. [ This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. [ Error: /invalidaccess in -dict- [ Operand stack: [ --dict:914/1241(G)-- [ Execution stack: [ %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- [ 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- 2 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- [ --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 [ 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- [ 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- [ --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- [ Dictionary stack: [ --dict:914/1241(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:50/200(L)-- --dict:914/1241(G)-- [ [ Current allocation mode is local [ Current file position is 91 [ GS<1> [

... and that is very similar to what gets left in Turboprint's log when I try to print from Acrobat.

I tried printing various separate pages in the document, but I got the same result whether I tried any 1 or all 57.

I tried printing FILE.PS straight to LPR and that gave me the same result. The length of FILE.PS (when Acrobat has printed all 57 pages) is some 1.34Mb. It seems as though it's GS that's falling over. GS's messages seem very cryptic to a bear of very little brain like me.

I did wonder whether this was something to do with fonts. I looked in the GS fonts directory and read the "documentation", such as it is. Then I looked in the Acrobat fonts directory, thinking that I could copy some over to GS and somehow tell it to use those. However, GS names the files in a DOS 8.3 format, all with extensions. AR doesn't - it seems to use names of random length, so how I'd persuade GS to use them is totally beyond me.

Help!!! (Please!)

Gerald.