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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Help with Mac-generated PS files...
Message-ID: <2002@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 20:36:20 GMT
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Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> 
> In some cases, at least, the PS file must begin with the line
> 
> %! 
> 
> Three characters, the third one being a SPACE.  If your fiddling with
> the file removed the space, you may get the file merely printed.
> 
> -- 
>   Gerald A. Edgar                               TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet
>   Department of Mathematics                     gae@osupyr.UUCP
>   The Ohio State University  ...{akgua,gatech,ihnp4,ulysses}!cbosgd!osupyr!gae
>   Columbus, OH 43210                            70715,1324  CompuServe

I haven't found a PostScript printer yet that requires the %! header --
but there's a lot of other software out there that can get between
your application and the printer in a network that does expect that
header to identify a file as PostScript.  (This sometimes presents annoying
problems when you attempt to print out a PostScript file as ASCII).

Clayton E. Cramer