Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

If you installed 4GE, you are two versions behind "the latest".  The current
version calls itself 4G1, the previous one was 4HW. 

Viewing PostScript documents works fine for me on 4G1 (and on 4HW).

		Steve

    
    PS will only appear in the list of converters if the XDPS (X Display
    Postscript) Extension is on your workstation. 
    
    Note that not all versions of VMS provide the XDPS Extension.  As a
    result when we query the server asking if it's available we omit PS
    from the list if we get an error.
    
    Steve
    CDA Viewer
    

re .2:  But he did say that DPS worked with DECwrite.  Are you sure your display
was pointing at the local DPS workstation, and not at another non-DPS station?

Burns

Hi,

.3 is correct DPS works fine in DECwrite but not in CDA!  The image on both is
running and displaying on the same workstation.  

The command 
$ decw$server_extensions/TABLE=decw$server0_table

returns the following...

"DECW$SERVER_EXTENSIONS" = "Adobe-DPS-Extension" (DECW$SERVER0_TABLE)

Are those really "-" and not "_" in the logical DECW$SERVER_EXTENSIONS?  The
correct name is, in fact, the one with "-".  However, I just found recently that
the DECW$STARTSERVER we have been shipping has "_".  If you have "-" I'm quite
confused.

But none of this really explains what is going on with CDA Viewer.  Just
for the heck of it, can you run XDPS$EXAMPLES:psdraw?

Burns

Hi,

For some reason the viewer is now working with postscript.  About the logical
DECW$SERVER_EXTENSIONS, I define it myself so that is probably why it
has "-" instead of "_"

I just tried to run PSDRAW and get the following error.

_MUTTON::> run psdraw
FATAL ERROR: Error in FOpenAndCheck on file z$:[fisher.psdraw]psdrawkinds.dat
(errno = 6 no such device or address)
%SYSTEM-F-OPCDEC, opcode reserved to DIGITAL fault at PC=00010202, PSL=03C00000
%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
module name     routine name                     line       rel PC    abs PC

                                                           00010202  00010202
UTIL            Punt                            10648      00000063  0000485F
UTIL            FOpenAndCheck                   10736      00000059  00004A75
RECT            RectLoadKinds                    9852      000000E1  0000769D
PSDRAW          main                             9394      000000CD  00002ECD

I imagine this has something to do with an initalization file but I'll keep
playing with it (I'd love to get it working!!)

Yeah, that must be a non-totally-new version.  I realized late that I had
left in that reference to my disk somewhere.  Try XDPS$EXAMPLES:PSDRAW.COM.

Burns

Do you have any neat things that have been drawn with this!!!??

I don't, not being much on drawing things.  Maybe someone else does.

Burns

     Not to sound dumb but, If you do not have the Postscript extension,
    how do you get it? I installed the latest (ssb) v5.4 and i have the 
    xdps examples dir but no extension....
    
    
    
    

If you have V5.4 SSB installed, then your server has the PostScript
extension.  Check to make sure you have the following file:

    SYS$LIBRARY:DECW$SVEXT_ADOBE_DPS_EXTENSION.EXE

    I have that file but i still get the same error when trying to run the
    PSDRAW.COM in XDPS$EXAMPLES.
    
    TRLIAN-sysmgr>@ XDPS$EXAMPLES:PSDRAW.COM
    X Toolkit Error: Server does not have PostScript extension.
    %DWT-F-DWTABORT, xtoolkit fatal error
    %TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
    module name     routine name                     line       rel PC   
    abs PC
    
                                                               000E62D3 
    000E62D3
                                                               000E6307 
    000E6307
    PSWINDOW        Initialize                       9645      00000063 
    0000666F
                                                               000E5A04 
    000E5A04
                                                               000E5BEE 
    000E5BEE
                                                               000E5CED 
    000E5CED
    WIDGET          WidgetCreate                    10163      00000028 
    00004348
    SCRN            ScrnCreate                      11593      000001A2 
    00008232
    PSDRAW          main                             9396      000000D6 
    00002ED6
    TRLIAN-sysmgr>dir  SYS$LIBRARY:DECW$SVEXT_ADOBE_DPS_EXTENSION.EXE
    
    Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]
    
    DECW$SVEXT_ADOBE_DPS_EXTENSION.EXE;1
       
    
    view/format=ps mill.ps gives this error:
    
    
    
    TRLIAN-sysmgr>view/format=ps mill.ps
    %CDA-E-ICVNOTFND, input converter not found
    
    
    /kp

Is the workstation as well as the client running V5.4?  They both have to be.
If they are, then on the workstation, look at

SYS$MANAGER:DECW$SERVER_0_ERROR.LOG.

The first time you try to use DPS, you should see an entry that looks like
this:

10-OCT-1990 17:28:58.8 Extension DECW$SVEXT_Adobe_DPS_Extension successfully lo.

If the load failed, you will see a message telling why.  If you don't have the
message at all, that means you are either not looking at the right log or some
such.

Oh, another thing...check around in both the client and server sides in 
SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSLIB] to make sure you don't have some old DPS files there.
(I never should have made BL5 so it could install in private roots!)

Burns

    
    Hmmmm.
    
     When i do a view/format=ps mill.ps on a vs2000 running v5.4 i recieve
    the error "%CDA-E-ICVNOTFND, input converter not found" but when i
    bringup the CDA viewer application I see the ps selection and it works.
    
     Is view/format=ps incorrect? It lists it under help.
    
    
    /kp

Re: .14

Are you specifying /INTERFACE=DECWINDOWS?  Do you actually have V5.4 and
not some field test version?

			Steve

    re: -1.  I wasn't specifying inter=decwindows since i was on a
    workstation, i assumed that like some applications (notes) that if your
    on a workstation and you typed view/format=ps it would automatically
    use decwindows as notes does....
    
      It does however work with the view/format=ps/interface=decwindows.
    
    thanks for all the replies...
    
    
    /kp

It does not seem to default to DECwindows.

		Steve

I think without I=D, it tries to convert to text.

Burns