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You may be able to use the G SYS$COMMON:[SYSHLP.EXAMPLES.DCPS]FONT_DOWNLOADER.COM command procedure D to list, download, and delete fonts on the optional hard drive on a C printer. The procedure is known to work with the DEClaser 5100 and : LN17ps printers, and may work with other printers as well.
E To use the procedure, invoke it and follow the prompts that it gives you.
G This appendix explains the differences between the DECprint Supervisor H software and the DECprint Printing Services software, and their ability H to coexist. "DCPS" refers to the DECprint Supervisor product; A "CPS" refers to the DECprint Printing Services product. Z D.1 DCPS/CPS Coexistence
E DCPS software can coexist on the same system with CPS Version 4.0 or H Version 4.1 software. The installation of DCPS software does not delete C or modify components of CPS software. You may continue to run both C products on the same system, or you may migrate the existing queue 3 structure from the CPS product to the DCPS product. _ D.2 Upgrading from CPS to DCPS
D If you are upgrading from CPS to DCPS, convert your CPS$STARTUP.COM file as follows:
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" 3 $ @SYS$STARTUP:CPS_TO_DCPS_STARTUP |
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" 4 Enter filename of CPS startup file to be converted; = Default filename is SYS$SYSROOT:[SYS$STARTUP]CPS$STARTUP.COM [default]: = disk$manager:[cps_conversion]cps$startup.com 3 Enter filename of DCPS startup file to be created; H Default filename is SYS$SYSROOT:[SYS$STARTUP]DCPS$STARTUP.COM [default]: > disk$manager:[cps_conversion]dcps$startup.com 3 Please read or run DIFFERENCES on the output file, 7 DISK$MANAGER:[CPS_CONVERSION]DCPS$STARTUP.COM, ) to be sure the new file meets your needs. |
N The procedure creates a startup file that DECprint Supervisor recognizes, but H does not change your existing queue definitions. If you need to add new L queues, see Section 3.3
E DCPS has an automatic data type detection feature. Therefore, you no H longer need to specify the data type as a queue default or in the PRINT command.
; If you defined generic queues for default data types, edit ! DCPS$STARTUP.COM and remove them. M D.3 DCPS$ Prefix
G All file names, logical names, and messages for the DCPS product start E with the DCPS$ prefix. This ensures that you can continue to use CPS B software to drive some queues, and add the DCPS software to drive 1 others. The default OpenVMS form is DCPS$DEFAULT.
H Certain files, however, are considered system resources, and are shared F between the DCPS and CPS products, and possibly other products. These shared resources are:
E Secondary messages (those generated by other facilities such as RMS, F and passed along by the DCPS product) retain the code of the facility that originated the message. ] D.4 Startup File Converter
H The conversion tool, CPS_TO_DCPS_STARTUP.COM, converts the startup file F for the CPS software so that it uses the names from the DCPS product. f This tool is described in Section 3.2.
G The following table lists the CPS_Name and the corresponding DCPS_Name conversions.
| CPS_Name | $DCPS_Name |
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| CPS$STARTUP | DCPS$STARTUP |
| CPS$EXECUTION_QUEUE | DCPS$EXECUTION_QUEUE |
| CPS$REQUIRED | DCPS$REQUIRED |
| CPS$GENERIC | DCPS$GENERIC |
| CPS_LIB | DCPS_LIB |
| CPS$DEVCTL | DCPS$DEVCTL |
| LPS$" queuename_PARAMETER | DCPS$ " queuename_PARAMETER |
| CPS$# queuename_STALL_TIME | DCPS$ # queuename_STALL_TIME |
| LPS$LAYUP | DCPS$LAYUP |
| DECprint Printing Services | DECprint Supervisor |
H The conversion tool does not change queue names or the structure of the queues. _ D.5 Eliminating Generic Queues
E DCPS software has the ability to automatically detect data types, so D you may be able to reduce the number of generic queues or eliminate p them altogether. Refer to Chapter 4 for more information on automatic data type detection. N D.6 Page Scaling
D The DCPS product can scale the logical page image to fit the output 3 sheet if the job provides the following parameters:
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" ! PAGE_SIZE=p,SHEET_SIZE=s |
9 Note that p and s are different values.
F The job assumes the parameter NUMBER_UP=1. With CPS, it was necessary E to explicitly provide a NUMBER_UP parameter in order to trigger page scaling. t D.7 Layup for PS Level 2 Printers & Layup Fixes
G The DCPS software layup facility supports PostScript Level 2 operators F when connected to printers that implement PostScript Level 2. It also 7 fixes or extends support for several Level 1 operators.
F Level 1 PostScript programs produced by Macintosh and PC applications H generally print better with the DCPS product than they did with the CPS H product. Problems with CorelDraw and Macintosh programs have been fixed. l D.8 Layup Options on PRINT Command Line
D With DCPS software, you can provide layup options directly with the G LAYUP_DEFINITIONS parameter, or you can record those options in a .LUP H file and provide that file name with the parameter. Providing the layup F options on the PRINT command makes it possible to pass them with jobs E to be printed on another system via the Distributed Queuing Services < product. CPS V4.1 software offers only the .LUP file option.
d See the User's GuideUser's Guide for information on expressing layup options in a . layup definition file or as a PRINT parameter. J D.9 Page Sizes
H In the CPS V4.1 product, the following page sizes did not exist or were C not correctly interpreted. The DCPS product defines and interprets these correctly.
A6q
C
D
7x9
7_envelope
10x14
11x14
PostCard
D To select job separator pages from an alternate tray using the DCPS . software, define the following system logical:
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" h $ DEFINE /EXECUTIVE_MODE /SYSTEM DCPS$queuename_SEPARATOR_TRAY number |
H Note that number is a valid tray number for the printer served > by that queue, and is printer-specific. Refer to your printer * documentation to obtain the correct value. o D.11 Stopping Unreachable PrintServer
G If the operator issues STOP/QUEUE/RESET, and the queue is connected to C a DIGITAL PrintServer printer that is unreachable, the queue stops B properly. This was not always the case with the CPS V4.1 software. a D.12 Overwriting First Line
D In the CPS V4.1 product, the top line was overwritten if the record D started with a form feed. This works correctly in the DCPS software. S D.13 Stall Timeouts
8 The CPS V4.1 software did not start the stall timer for G directly-connected serial printers. The DCPS software starts the timer.
E In the CPS V4.1 product, the default timeout for a stall message was B one minute. This frequently resulted in "queue stalled" G messages when the printer was processing a compute-intensive page (and G was not really stalled at all). In the DCPS product, the stall timeout is four minutes. O D.14 Requeuing a Job
E When a network error occurred while connecting to a printer, the CPS G V4.1 software would requeue the job with the /HOLD attribute. The DCPS 1 software requeues it without the /HOLD attribute. \ D.15 Reading Stream Files
E If a PostScript file has a record attribute of STREAM, STREAM_LF, or F STREAM_CR, it is read in head1 mode. This allows the DCPS software to C print very long stream records that the CPS software cannot print. G Files of this type are sometimes written by PC communications programs. a D.16 Copies Start on New Sheets
H When /COPIES=n is requested, and n is more than one, each copy E starts on a new sheet, even when printing with NUMBER_UP or SIDES=2. C This was not the case with PostScript jobs in the CPS V4.1 product. ` D.17 Generic Queues Restarted
G On shutdown, OpenVMS stops execution queues but not generic queues. As D a result, when the system starts up again, the generic queues begin F running even though they may have the wrong characteristics. When you A start up generic queues in the CPS V4.1 product, you get warning C messages saying that the queues are already running (as of OpenVMS E V5.5). When the DCPS software starts up generic queues, it stops and - then restarts those that are already running. a D.18 Proprinter Translator
E The DCPS software contains a new Proprinter-to-PostScript translator G not available in the CPS product. For general information on using the I PROPRINTER data type, see the User's GuideUser's Guide. e D.19 DCPS and PATHWORKS Libraries
A PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Macintosh) creates its own device control A library, MSAP$DEVCTL.TLB, and also puts its modules into the CPS F library if there is one. It does not put them in the DCPS library. To G rectify this, define DCPS_LIB as a search list that points to both the H DCPS and PATHWORKS libraries. An example in DCPS$STARTUP.TEMPLATE shows how to do this.
D PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Macintosh) has been retired and is no longer supported. |
D The DCPS software contains a new PostScript example file to improve C printing of Macintosh and PC files on DIGITAL PrintServer printers. m D.21 Improved Color Function for Colormate PS
D The color transfer function of the Colormate PS has been changed to E avoid the problems of gray scale images that are muddy or brown, and G natural images with poor flesh tones. The Colormate PS now runs prints H with a new default color transfer function to provide better gray scale A images and natural flesh tones. Consequently, you may notice the 5 following changes when you print on the Colormate PS:
- The DCPS product provides a new example file:
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" 1 SYS$COMMON:[SYSHLP.EXAMPLES.DCPS]CONFIDENTIAL.PS |
? This file shows how to redefine the showpage operator to write B "Confidential" at the top and bottom of each page as an C overlay (that is, after the contents of the page have been imaged).
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