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Article #7832

Re: postscript problem

#7832
From: Elizabeth D. Zwicky
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1989 15:57
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In article <1057@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> bi38@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU (Macbeth Ylr) writes:
>I'm posting this for a friend.  He dumped screen and used a program
>to convert the output to postscript.  The postscript this program
>produced wont run however.  It's included below and I'd appreciate
>any pointers on where the error lies.

The first mistake is in the first line,
>%!PS-Adobe-1.0

This header specifies that the following file conforms to the Adobe
standard. It is not a generic header that means the file is PostScript.
If there is anything in your printing system that relies on this information
(for instance, if you are running Transcript and have it set to reverse
page order), this file will never even make it to the printer. The
first program that tries to treat it as an Adobe conforming file will
fail, and throw it away as garbage. This is an unfortunately common
error (one I have seen in commercial products, would you believe).
If your file is not Adobe standard, the header should read "%! " or
anything else that begins "%!" and does NOT continue on with "PS-Adobe".
The printer doesn't care, but the printing system might. OSU's certainly
does...

	Elizabeth Zwicky
	(zwicky@cis.ohio-state.edu)
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