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In a previous article, ehle@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ehle) says:

>I posted a question a couple of days ago that I've gotten my answer
>to.  I was confused about why a graphic wasn't printing in color on
>a color printer, even though a color had been assigned to it on the
>screen. I was working in Pagemaker 4.0.
>
>The answer is that the graphic was imported as encapsulated
>Postscript, which means it cannot be altered. It may be able to be
>scaled and cropped (I'm not sure, haven't tried it), but its integrity
>within its borders can't be altered at all. To have a graphic that can
>have a color assigned to it, the graphic must originally have been
>scanned as a TIFF.

I'm afraid that this may not be the correct answer. 

The program must support color for this to work -- the .EPS file format is
fine for printing color to color printers. For example, Ventura/GEM *will*
print color .EPS files as color on color printers, though it has no facility
to alter or even display the color .EPS file on screen. Ventura/WIN can dis-
play & print color .EPS files, though it can't alter them.

If the .EPS file is in color, it should print in color on color PostScript
devices, since the file is simply incorporated into the general PostScript
output generated by the program. For this to fail, the program would have
to strip color information from the .EPS file. Similarly, for the file to
be printed in a color other than it was created, the program would have to
supply the color information within the .EPS file. Few programs will do 
this, as there are many flavors of .EPS, and many valid structures for 
defining an Encapsulated PostScript image.

My guess is that the original file is not in color...

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