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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Help Needed: PageStream to PostScript
Keywords: pagestream postscript
Message-ID: <1665@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 17:28:01 GMT
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Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <932@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>, pa1132@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1132) writes:
> 
>   I have some experience with postscript output from PageStream.
>   When printing to disk it seems not to print the "%!" character in
>   the beginning 
>   which is required for Postscript devices to recognize that the
>   file is a postscript file rather than a normal ASCII file.  As a
>   result when you dump that file to a Apple Laserwriter it outputs
>   pages containing the postscript commands rather than the actual
>   page.

This is nothing new.  When I got the original version of Publishing
Partner there were (and still are) no comments whatsoever in the output
plus they had a control-C at the beginning of the file.  I complained
and they said something like "well, it works on our printer".  As we
use PP to produce stuff that we include in troff output this is a
pain in the ass.  I have been using 'tr' to fix the control-C and
some other stuff but you still can't process the output with a
pager that looks for the reguired %%Page comments.  In other words,
%! is just one of the things missing.

The %! isn't required by the laserwriter.  It sounds like you are
running the output thru the TranScript (Adobe) filter.  If it
doesn't find the %! it assumes you want the file printed as text
and processes it appropriately.  

Now, my suggestion: bitch to SoftLogik.  It was over two years ago
that I explained to them why they needed to produce compliant
PostScript.  I would much rather they fixed existing bugs than
add new 'features'.

one of the thing
-- 
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