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Article #4957Re: How can I tell if a file is "postscript"
From: Ross Smith
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1991 06:26
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1991 06:26
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glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
>> In article <1991Mar4.075212.12828@lth.se>, d89mb@efd.lth.se (Magnus Bodin)
>writes:
>> >
>> > A file to be accepted by a laser-writer must start with
>> > %!
>manner. You point out that the comments are "over-rated and quite useless."
>However, this is exactly the situation under which they are quite useful,
>and it happens to be a very common scenario among folks who have networks,
>more than one computer, more than one kind of printer, and so forth.
The QMS PS-410 automatically senses if the print job is PostScript, HP PCL,
or HP-GL. One of the ways (but not the only way) that it senses a PostScript
print job is if the print job begins with a %!. As this auto-sensing
ability will become more common in the future we should all now begin our
PostScript files with %!, even if it isn't an EPS file.
--
Ross Smith rsmith@well.sf.ca.us {apple,pacbell,hplabs,ucbvax}!well!rsmith
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!well!rsmith From: rsmith@well.sf.ca.us (Ross Smith) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: How can I tell if a file is "postscript" Message-ID: <23507@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 9 Mar 91 06:26:09 GMT References: <1894@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <448@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Lines: 22