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From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: printing raw postscript
Keywords: postscript WriteNow bounding box
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Date: 26 Jul 89 22:33:37 GMT
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In article <2114@hub.UUCP> dz@cornu.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle) writes:
>I've been trying to print some raw postscript, and I can't quite
>do it right.  Anybody know what to do?

From the symptoms you describe (it lists the PostScript code) I think
all you need to do is to add the two characters '%!' to the beginning
of the file (on a line by themselves).  The "lpr" command tries to
simulate the old line-printer function of listing the file unless the
magic number at the beginning is %! to indicate executable PostScript.
It actually passes the file through a filter much like "enscript" to
make this happen.

Give it a try.

Glenn Reid
Adobe Systems