Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pterodactyl.cis.ohio-state.edu!zwicky From: zwicky@pterodactyl.cis.ohio-state.edu (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: postscript problem Message-ID: <31575@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 17 Jan 89 15:57:14 GMT References: <1057@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Elizabeth D. Zwicky Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 24 In article <1057@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> bi38@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU (Macbeth Ylr) writes: >I'm posting this for a friend. He dumped screen and used a program >to convert the output to postscript. The postscript this program >produced wont run however. It's included below and I'd appreciate >any pointers on where the error lies. The first mistake is in the first line, >%!PS-Adobe-1.0 This header specifies that the following file conforms to the Adobe standard. It is not a generic header that means the file is PostScript. If there is anything in your printing system that relies on this information (for instance, if you are running Transcript and have it set to reverse page order), this file will never even make it to the printer. The first program that tries to treat it as an Adobe conforming file will fail, and throw it away as garbage. This is an unfortunately common error (one I have seen in commercial products, would you believe). If your file is not Adobe standard, the header should read "%! " or anything else that begins "%!" and does NOT continue on with "PS-Adobe". The printer doesn't care, but the printing system might. OSU's certainly does... Elizabeth Zwicky (zwicky@cis.ohio-state.edu)