Why can I print the draft of the Tcl/Tk book?
From John Ousterhout (John.Ousterhout@Eng.Sun.COM): Here’s my form letter that seems to explain most of the problems people have had printing parts of the book: Some old versions of the Transcript spooler software cannot properly handle encapsulated Postscript files within another Postscript file when they do page reversal. They tend to garble the page structure of the file, causing an error at the point of the first EPS file. Part II of the Tcl book has lots of EPS files embedded in it, one for each screen dump. If your printer cannot print this file I suggest checking to see if page reversal is enabled for your printer. If so, try asking your local system wizard to disable it for you; this should allow the file to print. Or, find some other way to dump the Postscript file directly to the printer without going through the spooling software (e.g. perhaps you can simply cat it to the printer’s serial port). Others have suggested: The embedded pictures have CR as the line separator inste
