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From: marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: EPS Recycle Logos
Message-ID: <035241.19303@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 09:31:29 GMT
References: <1991Apr20.143129.23254@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1991Apr24.005215.17466@ico.isc.com> <1991Apr25.040156.2883@pegasus.com>
Reply-To: marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
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In article <1991Apr25.040156.2883@pegasus.com>, richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
|> >> The following two uuencoded files are EPS (encapsulated postscript)
|> >> versions (including 300 dpi TIFF bitmaps for display by PageMaker, etc.)
|> >> of recycle logos I have drawn.
|> >
|> >As received here, after uudecoding, they each had 30 bytes of garbage ahead
|> >of the %!.  What I presume to be the bitmaps were glued on right after the
|> >"showpage" line.  Good for choking a spooler; otherwise requires editing.
|> 
|> As hideous as it seems that's a valid EPS (of the tiff kind).
|> 
|> It should really be called a tiff file with a postscript comment.

I found the same garbage.  However, I simply edited out said garbage, and
lo and behold, the PostScript `worked' just fine.

[M][a][r][c]


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