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From: marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: eexec?
Message-ID: <1223@mtk.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 90 17:37:52 GMT
Reply-To: marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Mannesmann Tally, Kent, WA 98032
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Summary: How can one sidestep eexec?

If one is not using an Adobe interpreter, eexec is not handled very
gracefully.  Usually the printer just skips the rest of the file and
goes into idle mode and waits for a new file without printing anything.
It often doesn't even seem to know enough to substitute a font and avoid
eexec altogether.

Is there a way to jump over the part of the PostScript file that
involves eexec and the data eexec would use if it were there and
continue on with the rest of the file?

I noticed in the file dumps I've examined that eexec is usually immediately
preceeded by currentfile and followed by what appears to be some font
data which is then followed by a cleartomark.  Is there a way to skip
from the eexec to the cleartomark as though nothing happened and
continue with the file so that everything else prints?

Anyone?...  Anyone?...