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Re: Understanding Post Script

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From: Aandi_Inston
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:12
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>%PS mark 0.5 setlinewidth currentpoint

In PostScript, % is the start of a comment. The comment runs to the
end of the line. So your program contains nothing but comments - and
hence, is blank!

It is common to put

%!

on the first line of a PostScript file, alone, which tells some
utilities that this is PostScript.

Aandi Inston
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