Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!chinacat!woody
From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: EPS and PS, the difference?
Summary: text editor
Message-ID: <1115@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 90 14:11:55 GMT
References: <1816@diamond2.UUCP> <133322@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1837@diamond2.UUCP>
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In article <1837@diamond2.UUCP>, derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) writes:
> henry@angel.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton--Software Products -- R.I.P.) writes:
> 
> >In article <1816@diamond2.UUCP>, derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) writes:
> >    *  ......code starting with #! Adobe.
> >Chances are some prolog file is missing from the Mac version.
> 
> No, that's not it.  To start with, this is a sun document in PS.
> I get it to the Mac and can download it to the Laser just fine.
> But, if I just try to print it (i.e. using a text editor) I don't
> get the real document, I get a listing of the PS code.  It would 

This is just as it should be.  The text editor is probably using a laser
driver.  On the MAC, I think that if you print a file from an editor, it
goes through a filter that converts it to text.  The fact that you can
download it to the laser and it prints the picture, but you print it from
the editor and get a listing is diagnostic of this.

Cheers
Woody