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Re: Postscript Definitions

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From: Jeremy Smith
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:01
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In article <1992Jul21.214709.4538@u.washington.edu> seymour@milton.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) writes:
>
>Mathematica, like (far too) many other programs, uses a dialect of postscript
>requiring a definition file to be pre-pended to the file in question.
>The implementations of Mathematica i've worked with have some utility
> program (psview?) which does that job.  In the ultrix (DEC's version of Unix)
>version you tell it what file you want converted, and it spits it to "standard
> output"... so the actual "just gimme a file!" command is
>  psview infile >outfile
>and then outfile is ready-to-go postscript (not EPSF)
>--dick


Is this true of WordPerfect on DOS machines, and if so does anyone
have the definition file so that I can prepend it to files `printed'
to disk (using a postscript driver) and then pipe it off to a postscript
printer.


-- 
jeremy@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Jeremy |-) Smith)
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