Postscript

Creates a postscript file.

Format:

SPECTRA> post$*$script [file_name[.ps]]

Description:

The active queue elements are written to a Postscript file which can be submitted to a printer queue. The default file name is laser.ps.

/colour

Selects coloured output.

/dina4

/dina4p

/dina5

/dina5p

/dina6

/dina6p

/dina7

/dina7p

Selects a workstation viewport for the postscript command. The original viewport is restored after the command has been processed.

/eps

Encapsulated Postscript output, always portrait orientation.

/gs

Runs Ghostscript on the output file.

/gv

Runs Ghostview on the output file.

/noconfirm

SPECTRA creates a new version of the postscript file without asking for confirmation.

/portrait

Rotates the postscript output by 90 degree. Note that the workstation viewport also has to be changed. One example below demonstrates how portrait output is created.

/pri$*$nt

/pri$*$nt/lp=printer_name

The postscript output is sent to the printer. The printer name is determined by the qualifier /LP, by decoding the symbol PRINTER, the environment variable PRINTER and the environment variable LPDEST - in that order.

/redisplay

Normally the POST verb behaves like the DISPLAY command except that it creates Postscript output instead of X. For the Tk interface of Spectra it can be necessary to write into the Postscript file exactly what is currently on the graphical screen (e.g. after SSA). That's what the /REDISPLAY qualifier does.

e.g.:

SPECTRA> post/dina4/print A dina4 postscript file is created and sent to the default printer.