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Re: Why do I not see the characters

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Op zaterdag 9 jun 2012 16:18 CEST schreef John Deubert:

> By "library" do you mean PS code stored on your hard disk?

Yes, exactly. I do not want to copy that code every time. The program
looks less and when I make a change …


> If so, you can store the code in a .ps file and execute it from within
> another PS program with the "run" operator:
>
> 	(myLibraryCode.ps) run
>
> As you can see, "run" is the PS equivalent of "#include."
>
> The only tricky bit is figuring out what directory on your disk epstopdf
> considers to be its "home" directory, that is, where it will look for
> the myLibraryCode.ps file. It may be the directory in which the epstopdf
> executable resides; that's common, but by no means the only possibility.
> One way to ferret this out is to make a file from within a PS program
> and see where the file shows up on your disk. Try this:
>
> % ====Cut here======
> (TestFile.txt)(w) file
> dup (This is a test.) writestring
> closefile
> % ====Cut here======
>
> Run this program and see where the TestFile.txt file shows up; that's
> the home directory.

That gives:
    Error: /invalidfileaccess in --file--
    Operand stack:
       (TestFile.txt)   (w)

Exactly what I got before. As I understand it epstopdf does not allow
file access for security reasons.


> There's a detailed article on this in the January 2002 issue of the
> Acumen Journal (free for the downloading here:
> www.acumentraining.com/acumenjournal.html)

I will look at it. (And the other stuff.)

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Why do I not see the characters Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-09 11:30 +0200
  Re: Why do I not see the characters Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-09 14:04 +0200
    Re: Why do I not see the characters John Deubert <john@acumentraining.com> - 2012-06-09 07:18 -0700
      Re: Why do I not see the characters Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-09 19:50 +0200
        Re: Why do I not see the characters Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-06-09 22:24 +0200
    Re: Why do I not see the characters luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-09 10:14 -0700
      Re: Why do I not see the characters Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-09 22:16 +0200
        Re: Why do I not see the characters luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-09 14:16 -0700
          Re: Why do I not see the characters Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-10 00:15 +0200
            Re: Why do I not see the characters luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-09 15:51 -0700
    Re: Why do I not see the characters luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-09 10:24 -0700

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