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Article #5030Re: How can I tell if a file is "postscript"
From: Glenn Reid
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 17:11
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 17:11
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In article <1991Mar14.045607.948@csis.dit.csiro.au> ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken
Yap) writes:
> Along similar lines, I once saw a line printer listing of 100 pages of
> PS output. It was an accident (the user forgot the -P or $PRINTER in
> BSD lpr).
I have seen this happen (by similar accident) on a phototypesetter at
high resolution, generating maybe fifty pages of program listing in
Courier at 2540 dots per inch, instead of the one page of nice graphic
output. I think it might have been a result of some font-proofing
software I was writing in which I forgot the initial %! That's the
kind of thing you forget only once.
Actually, I vaguely remember TranScript getting an option added to it
to deal with things like typesetters where you NEVER want the program
listed in Courier. Maybe it was the $PSTEXT environment variable, so
you could at least do the null filtering operation rather than convert
it to text for listing.
Gee, this has really become a tangent, hasn't it? I like it when that
happens....
Glenn Reid RightBrain Software
glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!adobe!heaven!heaven.woodside.ca.us From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: How can I tell if a file is "postscript" Message-ID: <459@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Date: 14 Mar 91 17:11:57 GMT References: <1991Mar14.045607.948@csis.dit.csiro.au> Sender: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us Lines: 25