weird characters in Postscript file, causing undefined error in RIP

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From: Matthew_Larmour
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:59

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Hi,

I ran across a Postscript file that fails to RIP on our Xerox DocuTechs. Looking in the Postscript file, all seems normal until, abruptly, there is a bunch of seeminly random characters. Then it goes back to normal again. Here's a sample (the text preceeding this seems like normal Postscript code, and the text after also seems normal):

[4.685953 3.498056 ] pdfxs
108.240005 385.9199?�??	N� � �{E" ,U�B???�I ? ,_�?j�{ ���sw�??E� �Cڥ�qm{� q?^��P ?�� 6t?)�*�w: ?� '\�?m��)�?��䣜 `?=�f �?���� L� �.��_@5<V�? |?� ��oZYj�? l�_?�Z) 	$R��N�U?�nG33Ej��K�@?�> ���

Could any one tell me what this is, and why it occurs?

Many thanks,

Matt Larmour

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