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Author: /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/AD...
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:40

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pwatson@lincoln.gpsemi.com (Philip Watson) wrote:

>In article <1992Dec7.182144.12837@aston.ac.uk> Mik Davis,
>davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk writes:
>>  Can MSWord on a Mac not read Postscript files? - I was intending to
>use this
>>method myself to transfer some work done during the university vacation.
>Can
>>it be done?

>Well I've just tried it on a copy of Word 5.0 for Macintosh and it will
>load
>EPS files but not plain Postscript. (Maybe it's an extra cost option.)

I just thought I'd point something out here, as it may be of interest. The
Acorn PostScript printer drivers (both RISC OS 2 and 3) always generate EPS
files if the output is a single page. If the output is multi-page, then you
get a standard PostScript file. Some programs which can import EPS don't
like the version numbers quoted by the RISC OS 2 driver though. This can be
fixed by a quick edit to the output, or even the printer driver module
(since finding the string with !Edit isn't hard).

Owen.

Re: EPS files

#633

Author: David De Vorchik
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:27

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In article <ARM200-921214124010-52326667*@MHS> /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk writes:

... stuff about generating EPS files for Word deleted ...

>
>I just thought I'd point something out here, as it may be of interest. The
>Acorn PostScript printer drivers (both RISC OS 2 and 3) always generate EPS
>files if the output is a single page. If the output is multi-page, then you
>get a standard PostScript file. Some programs which can import EPS don't
>like the version numbers quoted by the RISC OS 2 driver though. This can be
>fixed by a quick edit to the output, or even the printer driver module
>(since finding the string with !Edit isn't hard).
>
>Owen.

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.

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

 -- david

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 David 'dizzy' De Vorchik                                     ddv@acorn.co.uk
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 Acorn Computers Limited                                   Tel +44 223 254351

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