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From: taft@adobe.com (Ed Taft)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
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Date: 7 Sep 90 15:43:07 GMT
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Since Glenn mentioned my name, I suppose I'd better contribute what I can to
this discussion. I certainly don't want Glenn to eat a toner cartridge; it
might interfere with his ability to participate in this newsgroup.

Comments are not stripped out by the serial driver, centronics driver, or
any other driver in a PostScript printer. Comments are recognized as such
only by the PostScript language scanner, which is invoked when you execute
the file or read it using the token operator, but not when you read it using
data transfer operators such as readstring.

My guess is that either the connection is flakey or the comments are being
stripped by software further upstream. But that's just a guess.

By the way, the subject of this thread doesn't have much to do with its
content, does it?

Ed Taft      taft@adobe.com      ...decwrl!adobe!taft