Postscript

A: Try this for your prologue.ps file:

 
<<
   /BeginPage {   pop               % Throw away the showpage count
                  612 0 translate   % translate by the page width
                                    %   (your width may differ from
                                    %   mine, of course.)
                  90 rotate         % Rotate by 90 degrees
               }
>> setpagedevice
 

Note that this won't work on a Level 1 printer. (setpagedevice was added in Level 2.)

John Deubert (john@acumentraining.com) [A207]

A: Or better, to be independent of the page size of the document being processed, use the following:

  
<<   /EndPage   { exch pop 2 ne     { [{ThisPage} <> /PUT pdfmark true}     {false}ifelse   } >>setpagedevice 
 

Helge Blischke (H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de) [A210]

A: There are 35 official PostScript fonts (they should be resident in the firmware of a postscript-capable printer):

1. AvantGarde-Book

2. AvantGarde-BookOblique

3. AvantGarde-Demi

4. AvantGarde-DemiOblique

5. Bookman-Light

6. Bookman-LightItalic

7. Bookman-Demi

8. Bookman-DemiItalic

9. Courier

10. Courier-Oblique

11. Courier-Bold

12. Courier-BoldOblique

13. Helvetica

14. Helvetica-Oblique

15. Helvetica-Bold

16. Helvetica-BoldOblique

17. Helvetica-Narrow

18. Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique

19. Helvetica-Narrow-Bold

20. Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique

21. NewCenturySchlbk-Roman

22. NewCenturySchlbk-Italic

23. NewCenturySchlbk-Bold

24. NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic

25. Palatino-Roman

26. Palatino-Italic

27. Palatino-Bold

28. Palatino-BoldItalic

29. Symbol

30. Times-Roman

31. Times-Italic

32. Times-Bold

33. Times-BoldItalic

34. ZapfChancery-MediumItalic

35. ZapfDingbats

Jim Driscoll (jdriscoll@trentu.ca) [A226]

A: That may be true about resident fonts but most fonts can be written to postscript. It is just math The base fonts are just resident so everyone does not have to shuffle so much. However - again Any graphic designer worth their salt will supply ALL the fonts they use in a file to the printer. DON"T count on anyone else. One of the magics of PDF is the embedding of fonts.

MSD (mikedodds1@home.com) [A227]

A: Yes. But it won't help one iota because all the questions you ask will be answered by Distiller (level 3, no trapping, CMYK) and the single PDF generated will be based on that one answer.

You cannot embed conditional PostScript into a PDF.

Aandi Inston (quite@dial.pipex.com) [A243]