Re: Illustrator 88, EPS, Printing

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From: Chung-Pang Lai
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 02:06

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In article <1415@intercon.UUCP> amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) writes:
]In article <1051@pbs.uucp>, bhall@pbs.uucp (Dark Star) writes:
]> The "encapsulated" is the problem.  This includes a Macintosh QuickDraw
]> "preview" in the file.  You need to use the "Save as..." option and click
]> the "None" option for "Include preview".  This will give you an ordinary
]> ASCII file of PostScript code that a PostScript printer should be able
]> to handle.
]
]Close, but no cigar.  The Macintosh preview option doesn't affect the text
]portion at all.

I think Dark Star is correct.  The preview image may contain some binary
data.  Frame Technology sells a filter called FrameEPSF on macintosh.  It
takes an EPSF with mac preview image and translates it into EPSI for the
unix system.  EPSI is a pure ASCII format unlike the EPSF.

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From: cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai)
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Subject: Re: Illustrator 88, EPS, Printing
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Date: 30 Aug 89 02:06:23 GMT
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