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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

1607.0. "Convert Document to POSTSCRIPT fails" by VSSPC::MSD615::king (VSS-SPE System Management / Boxborough, MA) Tue Oct 13 1992 22:19

In V3.0 when attempting to convert document (CD) to POSTSCRIPT the 
operation fails with this error message:

%OA-E-NOCOPY, Problem with COPY function - file "file specnnnn.ps"

I was successful in converting the same document to DDIF. 


Thanks,


Bryan
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1607.1CONVERT vs FORMATSCOTTC::MARSHALLDo you feel lucky?Wed Oct 14 1992 11:399
Hi,

I think the problem is because PS is final form: ie you don't "convert"
documents to PS, you "format" them to PS, eg using "Print to Document" to
send the documnet through the WPS+ formatter.  I seem to remember Richard
Newland writing several detailed explanatory notes on this subject elsewhere
in this conference...

Scott
1607.2'POSTSCRIPT' type?IOSG::NEWLANDRichard Newland, IOSG, REO1-D/4AWed Oct 14 1992 12:5034
What type of document did you try to convert to PostScript, and did you
type 'POSTSCRIPT' into the 'New document data type' field? 

The ALL-IN-1 V3.0 Document Handling model classes document types as
Revisable or Final-form.  Convert operations can only be performed between
different Revisable types or between different Final-form types.  Format
operations can be performed from Revisable types to Final-form types.  The 
ALL-IN-1 CD (Convert Document) and FMD (Format Document) options will 
enforce these rules by not allowing types of the wrong class to be 
specified.

The 'POSTSCRIPT' type is not part of standard ALL-IN-1, and therefore must
have been added to your system.  Standard ALL-IN-1 has a type called 'PS',
which is defined as a final form type.  I suspect that the POSTSCRIPT entry
in the FORMAT master on your system has been incorrectly defined as a
revisable format.  Therefore the CD operation was allowed to proceed but 
later failed because the system did not have a converter for handling 
conversions from your revisable type to PostScript.

Since you were able to convert to DDIF (a revisable type) then your source
document was probably a revisable type.  You would not normally be allowed 
to convert such a document to PostScript because that is a final-form type.  
If the FORMAT master entries are defined correctly you will not be allowed 
to specify incorrect data types in the 'New document data type' field.  The 
fact that you were allowed to type POSTSCRIPT is because the FORMAT master 
entry on your system is incorrectly defined.

If you have a revisable document and want to 'convert' it to PostScript you 
have to perform a format operation, by either doing a FMD (Format Document) 
or a Print to DOCUMENT.


Richard