Re: Color postscript, Preview, and Yap

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From: andrew
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 21:05

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In article <1992Oct30.151205.17748@news.nd.edu> matt@zeb.ame.nd.edu (Matthew J. Grismer) writes:
>Anybody have any idea why a color postscript file will appear correctly in  
>Yap, but as grayscale in Preview? At first it wouldn't even appear on the  
>page in Preview, so I used the simple mode option in the Open panel. Then  
>it did appear, but as I said, it was grayscle instead of color. Yap, on  
>the other hand, seemed to have no problem with the file. The postscript  
>was created on a Mac with DeltaGraph Professional.

Preview is a lot pickier about how your PostScript code is formatted.
Especially with regard to the headers and such.  Yap, on the other
hand, literally just dumps the code to a PostScript context and puts
the results in a window.

Yap is cool.

andrew
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