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From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Help with Mac-generated PS files...
Message-ID: <10176@ncc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 20:50:31 GMT
References: <993@nugipsy.UUCP> <459@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
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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.

Are you sure about this? What about %!PS-Adobe which is a documented
part of the encapsulation standard?

I have noticed that some software (Ventura 1.0 under MS-DOS for one)
outputs the header as ^D%! ...

The idea being to force an end-of-job before your file. This really
screwed us for the better part of a day - everytime we sent a Ventura
created file via the UNIX spooler (lpd and pscomm) we would get raw
PS source. It turns out pscomm.c was checking for "%!" to determine
if it was a PS file. The fix was to add a check for "\04%!" ...

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