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From: jrstremikis@vms.macc.wisc.edu (John Stremikis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Printing PC-PageMaker PostScript on Mac & LW II NTX
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Date: 12 Apr 90 19:34:51 GMT
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This question may qualify as "most frequently asked"...

My colleague prepares several monthly reports in PC-PageMaker,
and prints the PostScript files to disk.

The files are then ZIPped, and uploaded to the VAX, for retrieval.
I can successfully download, and UnZIP, with the UnZIP utility,
on this Macintosh. 

The files look good. However, using DistillPS to download to
the NTX, the error log reports "Error: Limitcheck..." and 
points to  S_IMAGEMASKV3 FF ....   (very many characters follow).

If I use an edit utility, and remove just the IMAGEMASKs from the
file, it prints successfully. (Of course, the pages have no graphics.)

Can anyone offer some insight? 
Our objective is a "device independent" PS file, which can be
printed from the PC, Mac, or VAX to a PS printer.

John Stremikis