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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

1247.0. "Printing PAINT pictures on SIXEL devices" by H2SO4::GERSBACH (Edwin Gersbach TSSC Z�rich) Wed Aug 09 1989 05:38

I've searched this conference several times because I couldn't beleive that I'm
the first one encountering this bug, but could not find any releated topic.

When I print a PAINT picture on a sixel device, a stream-lf file is created with
only one record (which RMS complains beeing not terminated!). This is fine as 
long as the picture is not too complex.

As soon as this output record exceeds 32767 bytes, the file can no longer be 
printed! Unfortunately this limit is reached rather soon. I did it with a 
picture of only 26 rectangular boxes using a fill pattern.

Is this bug really not yet known?

Edwin
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1247.1Just duplicated it, but is it a bug???EZWIND::LEVYBound to cover just a little more groundWed Aug 16 1989 13:5621
I was just able to duplicate what I think happened to you.  Here's the error
message from the queue:

Refuge� sh que/all *admin*
Generic printer queue ADMIN

  Jobname         Username     Entry  Blocks  Status
  -------         --------     -----  ------  ------
                  LEVY           884     102  Retained on error
    %PSM-E-READERR, error reading !AS
    -RMS-W-RTB, !UL byte record too large for user's buffer
    -SYSTEM-E-NOMSG, Message number 0000CBAA

Perhaps this can be solved by bumping some of your UAF parameters.  I'm not
sure which, but would probably start with BYTLM.

Good luck!

	- Dave_who_generally_uses_the_PostScript_queues
1247.2This problem has been fixedEPIK::J_JOSEPHCats are on the upgrade.Wed Aug 30 1989 17:0519
> When I print a PAINT picture on a sixel device, a stream-lf file is created with
> only one record (which RMS complains beeing not terminated!). This is fine as 
> long as the picture is not too complex.
> 
> As soon as this output record exceeds 32767 bytes, the file can no longer be 
> printed! Unfortunately this limit is reached rather soon. I did it with a 
> picture of only 26 rectangular boxes using a fill pattern.
> 
> Is this bug really not yet known?
> 
> Edwin

The bug is known, and has been fixed.  'twas one of the many problems with 
printing in V1 paint.  If you can get your hands on any of the baselevels of
DECwindows V2, you will see this problem fixed.

-Jonathan