I used Xara so far only for creating on-screen graphics. When I recently tried to produce a postscript output for imagesetting I encountered the following problem:

I printed a final artwork form Xara to file using the Linotronic 630 printer driver (recommended by my imagesetter buro) under Windows NT 4.0.

When pre-viewing the resulted file in GhostWiew, a postscript error occured and at the imagesetter refused to print the file as well (it complained about some "insufficient resolution").

After fiddling a bit with a .ps file I discovered that the source of error is the following piece of code between the
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>%%Resolution: 2438<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
and
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>%%EndExitServer<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
lines:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>0

count 0 eq { % is the password on the stack?
true
}{
dup % potential password
statusdict /checkpassword get exec not
} ifelse
{ % if no password or not valid
(WARNING : Cannot perform the exitserver command.) =
(Password supplied is not valid.) =
(Please contact the author of this software.) = flush
quit
} if
serverdict /exitserver get exec
statusdict /changeresolution known {
2438 statusdict /changeresolution get exec
} if<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It was enough to delete these lines and then both GhostView and the imagesetter worked as expected.

Hope this helps someone. And BTW: always use GhostView to pre-check your postscript outputs. It is free and it can be a real money-saver.

-- Ladislav Seredi (zarandok@geocities.com)

[This message was edited by zarandok on August 10, 2000 at 07:29 AM.]

[This message was edited by zarandok on August 10, 2000 at 07:32 AM.]