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From: spenton@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Steve Penton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Generating Postscript files.
Summary: It's Probably The first Line !
Message-ID: <1991May17.050254.23135@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 05:02:54 GMT
Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root)
Organization: Space Science Labs
Lines: 49

(kent L. Shephard) writes:
>
>I have a '040 system and I want to print to a file so I can take it to
>my PC and print.
>
>Now the problem:
>
>I know I can select print and then save via the save button.  The problem
>is that when I take this file to my PC to be printed it coughs and pukes
>and gives me an error.
>

If you look at your NeXT file, you will notice that the first line is:

%!PS-Adobe-2.0

If you edit this line down to

%!

I believe it might just work!


Chances are you are just too cool for your PC.  By dropping down to %!
you let your PC printer use the best postscript its got instead of
confusing it with the 2.0.

This has ALWAYS worked for me when I take files to work and print them
out on LaserWriters (Suns).

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