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Appendix F: Ultra Script Tips
Appendix F: UltraScript Tips
.. If you are getting "Out of Memory" errors with UltraScript, get
rid of your Desk Accessories; large PostScript files can really chew up
space when printing .
.. Freehand 2.0 PostScript files sometimes will not print with
UltraScript. In order to print these files, save them in EPS
(Encapsulated PostScript) format, load them into another program, like
PageMaker, and print the PostScript file to disk from PageMaker, rath­
er than directly from Freehand.
.. PageMaker has a ''Print to disk" option. Just press Option
when you select Print from the File menu .
.. UltraScript program looks for a file called STARTUP.PS during
its initialization process, and uses it if found. We include a
STARTUP.PS file on the Spectre disk, which allows you to use downloadable
Mac fonts such as CassadyWare without having to modify
each one, and allows a Ready, Set Go 4.5 PostScript file with text in it
to print properly. As a bonus, we also include a replacement error han­
dler.
The first section of the ST ARTUP.PS file is a replacement for the
error handler which gives you a little more information if you crash
while printing. It will print what instruction you "died" at, plus what­
ever would have been printed on that page. If you don't want the error
handler, just delete the whole errordict section.
The first line of the second section (after systemdict) fixes the
problem with fonts like CassadyWare. The next two lines fix the problem
Ready, Set, Go 4.5 has when printing text.
.. In order to get downloadable Mac fonts to work you have two
choices. You can either use the STARTUP.PS file we send on the
Spectre disk, or you can use a program like FEdit to find this line
(found near the beginning of the data fork) in each font you are print­
ing:
Icache{NL 0 eq{setcachedevice}{6{pop}repeat}ifelse 0 0 moveto}def
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