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Re: Help: .PRN file from Orcad SDT

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From: Matthew Kirkcaldie
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 07:44
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In article <3d478d58.5081138@news.cantech.net.au>,
 budgie@nowhere.cantech.net.au (budgie) wrote:

> >If it's not text, it's not PostScript.
> 
> I'll bow to your obviously far greater knowledge of .ps file
> structure.  I wouldn't have any idea what they look like.

It's just a text file written in a language which looks a bit like a 
procedural language like C or similar.  The printer then interprets the 
language in the process of drawing the page as a bitmap in memory, which 
is then transferred to the paper using the laser to write it onto the 
drum, a line at a time.
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From: Matthew Kirkcaldie <matthewk@mail.newcastle.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,aus.electronics,aus.computers.ibm-pc,aus.computers
Subject: Re: Help:  .PRN file from Orcad SDT
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:44:20 +1000
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