Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Don Lancaster Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:32:55 -0700 Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net XAWTRbNXb7mwMv9wJVDqhgh6v6GeHQ5jaqhNPIJr6XTE6xN3v07pYKxPspb6DFwKsK Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z0VJwe03QNHX9YdQQFSc3fugGAM= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:1094 On 11/26/2012 8:31 AM, Chris wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:25:34 -0700, Don Lancaster wrote: > >> On 11/26/2012 7:46 AM, luser.droog wrote: >>> Don Lancaster wrote: >>> >>> >> >> Thank you for your response. >> But using {20 string cvs print} does the same thing. >> >> I suspect this is a bizarre interaction with windows 8. >> >> A possible but complex workaround might be to write needed into to a >> disk file. > > Actually, one thing that does occur to me is that Ghostscript (wrongly, > IMHO) doesn't flush the i/o buffer as part of the "==" operation. > > So, you could try doing: > > %!PS > 0 1 1000 {== flush} for > % EOF > > And see if that helps. > > Windows 8 is rather an unknown quantity at this stage, though > :-( > > Chris > Flush does not seem to help. Again, problem seems independent of == as 20 string cvs print does the same. Long time delays do not seem to make any difference. Execution time seems pretty much the same between Acrobat 9 and GhostScript. -- Many thanks, Don Lancaster voice phone: (928)428-4073 Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 rss: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu.xml email: don@tinaja.com Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com