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From: laba-4he@e260-4g.berkeley.edu (The Cybermat Rider)
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Subject: Multiple %!s legal?
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Date: 7 May 89 20:01:35 GMT
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Ever so often, I come across a PostScript file that contains multiple %!s
(the obligatory one at the beginning and the others scattered throughout the
file).  The upshot of this phenomenon is that the local LaserWriter only
prints the pages _following the last %! in the file_, which naturally causes
me no end of grief.

The sections of the file concerned are usually included PostScript files
themselves, so the extra %!s are understandable.  Unfortunately, the
LaserWriter isn't so understanding -- it seems to treat %! as a
start-of-file marker, and since it starts printing from the last page.....

My questions: Are multiple %!s in a PostScript file legal?  What purpose(s)
does %! serve?

If it helps, the LaserWriter is running version 38.0 of PostScript.

Please email any responses -- I'll summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance for any info!

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