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From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: a plea
Message-ID: <6456@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 19 Mar 91 17:12:51 GMT
References: <9103191412.AA27314@stork.cs.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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In article <9103191412.AA27314@stork.cs.rochester.edu> bukys@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>This is a futile plea, I know, but here it is.
>
>        Please stamp out bad PostScript generators.

Has anyone written a program to check PostScript files for these
types of problems?

I don't know PostScript well enough to know if this is feasible,
but it must be possible to do some of the checking you complain
about.

If you could write such a program, then your plea wouldn't be so
futile.

Curt Welch