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Re: EPS files

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From: /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/AD...
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:46
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ddevorchik@acorn.co.uk (David De Vorchik) writes:

>Owen you are wrong...

>The PostScript printer drivers will only generate EPS output *IF* the
>application has requested it via PDriver_SelectIllustration.

>As the printer driver has no knowledge of the number of output pages at the
>start of job it is impossible for it to work out that it is a single page
>job.

True, I was wrong. However !Draw always does this, so you can get EPS files
directly out of some RISC OS applications which is what the discussion was
about. Thanks for the correction...

>I would have thought you would have known this, given your vast knowledge of
>the RISC OS printer driver system.... 

... and next time keep the sarcasm to yourself. We're all entitled to a
mistake from time to time, particularly when trying to be helpful in my
spare time about a topic which has nothing to do with my current job.

Owen.
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