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Re: Another EPS question

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From: Susannah Skyer
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 14:06
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I don't think you need a special utility to do this 
(print Mac-created EPS files on UNIX to a PostScript printer)

Here's what I'd do:

on the Mac, in the application in which 
you've created your graphic, print the PostScript file to disk

send this new file (it should be the PostScript code) to
your UNIX machine

on your UNIX machine, check that what you've got looks like a 
PostScript program (i.e., readable code, not garbage characters)

using vi, add the line

showpage

to the end of the file. This will make the printer show the picture,
as opposed to waiting for more PostScript, which is what the printer
would otherwise do with _encapsulated_ PostScript

send the file to your printer. lpr, or whatever your site's print 
command is, should work, because the first line of the file should 
tell the printer, "I'm a PostScript file."

Hope this helps.

Susannah Skyer
Technical Author
Quantime UK
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From: skyer@quantime.co.uk (Susannah Skyer)
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Subject: Re: Another EPS question
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Date: 4 Jan 90 14:06:58 GMT
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