Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Path: utzoo!utgpu!tj
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: Want Word 5.0 Postscript header
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.202804.1653@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <1990Sep20.051247.28499@loop.uucp>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 90 20:28:04 GMT

I have found the hard way that there are some problems with the Word 5.0 
PostScript header file.

The old problems of flushfile and stuff are gone (version 4.0) but a new
one has arrived that causes CAP users grief and probably other (Novell) 
users as well if their spooler software handles procsets.

Microsoft begins a procset and never ends it. Any system that is looking for
procsets swallows your whole document in the process. You can manually
edit the header to make it a complete procset. Microsot MAY have a fix
for this. I admit that I have not contacted them about this. How many
people print Word 5 over CAP??. I probably should have called Microsoft.

Have you ever tried to explain to a front line technical support person
that your PC spools to Unix running CAP over Appletalk and ethernet and that
it captures PostScript procsets and that the Postscrp.ini file contains
an incomplete procset?

What's a procset? <-- probable response!

Sorry... the last two paragraphs are because I am feeling guilty for
not calling to report it.
tj
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