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NOTWITHSTANDING that this message is premature (I just took delivery of
the red, green, and blue books but have not yet read them thoroughly), and
that I am undoubtedly neither the first nor the last person to ask this:

What is Encapsulated PostScript, precisely?

I have managed to get several tools to emit PS files that are intended to
go straight to a printer, but I need to create .EPS files for inclusion in
a document produced by Borland's Sprint (tm), and I cannot get a straight
answer (from someone who's not trying to sell me his product to do this)
about what, precisely, I have yet to accomplish.  Need I merely prepend
"header comments" to an otherwise not-encapsulated PostScript file?  If so,
which are mandatory, if any?

I know this can't be that difficult, but just try to look in up in the
respective indices of the above-mentioned books and see how far you get.
Harrumph!  :-)

-Jim Hickstein
jxh@cup.portal.com
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