An internet aquaintance sent me some .ps file of his compositions produced
via Sibelius but they do not behave like any .ps file I've seen before.
In Ghostview I have to view the pages in sequence if I try to jump
(a) page(s) I get an error message. More seriously if I print I have to do
the pages in order, if I attempt to do odd pages so as to then do it
double sided it prints an error message instead of page 3.
Why does it happen and how can I correct it?
It is probably the usual problem with Windows-created postscript
files. Saving the score as a PDF file should help (ghostview can
display PDF files; for best conversion results, view the PDF in a Unix
version of Acrobat reader and then print/save as postscript), but that
would probably require a commercial "PDF writer" printer driver.
Under Linux, you can try to clean up the Windows postscript code with
the "fixps" utility to get page numbers back, but I've found that it
crashes on many files, and any postprocessing (psnup or selecting
odd-numbered pages etc.) still doesn't work.
The best thing to do is to tell your acquaintance to change the
settings of the postscript printer driver used to save the score:
postscript options / output format should be
"optimal portability - ADSC"
(or whatever that is in your localised version of Windows -- I think
the acronym "ADSC" is fairly invariant).
With that option I've even been able to save Word documents as
postscript files that behaved reasonably well in the Unix world.
Hope that helps,
Stefan.
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