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From: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: postscript problem
Message-ID: <740@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 16:50:42 GMT
References: <1057@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> <31575@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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>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.

The header

	%!PS-Adobe-

(note the lack of version number) means that the PostScript is
minimally conforming.  Such things as page reversal and selection
filters will work, but not necessarily other operations.

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