Helpful suggestions were provided by:
Joe Fletcher <joe_at_meng.ucl.ac.uk>
GRANDLE_at_acodbob.larc.nasa.gov
MJ Watson <mjwatson_at_snafu.livenet.net>
Oisin McGuinness <oisin_at_sbcm.com>
I ended up disabling printing but leaving queing enabled on one print
queue, and was thus able to capture a file in the print queuue. Comparing
it (using diff) to the original PS file that had been printed, I discovered
that a formfeed (^L) had been inserted every 61 lines. This is not a fatal
problem in most PS code (it's just whitespace which is ignored), but if
there was embedded byte-counted data such as images that would break things.
We still havn't figured out exactly why the form-feeds are getting in there
(obviously, something in the print software was trying to be too clever for
its own good and adding unwanted pagination), but at least we're now quite
sure the problem happened on the VMS side, so it's not my problem any more
:-)
Roy Smith <roy_at_popmail.med.nyu.edu>
New York University School of Medicine
550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Received on Thu Apr 22 1999 - 18:20:32 NZST