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From: haskins@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Proper postscript file?
Message-ID: <208400001@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 17:34:35 GMT
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Nf-ID: #N:s.cs.uiuc.edu:208400001:000:1490
Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!haskins    Dec 13 22:23:00 1989



This is a sample of the beginning and end of a postscript file that is
produced by Borland's Sprint.  In the third line, you see a ^D (which
I have changed to \^\D).  Is that normal?  There is a program on the
campus that will read a postscript file and squirt it to a postscript
printer, and when it hits that ^D, it stops there and thinks it's done.
I end up having to manually strip it out right before I send it along.
So is it something that should be complained about, or ....?  There's
also a ^D at the end, too.

Thanks much.

L. Haskins -- haskins@cs.uiuc.edu

-cut here -
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Creator: Sprint V1.00
^D
/mainvm save def
(\032) cvn {} def
%statusdict begin /waittimeout 0 def end % infinite time-out usually not needed
/ff {/vpitch exch def findfont vpitch scalefont setfont
	/hpitch ( ) stringwidth pop def
	/hpextra 0.0 def
	} bind def                                 % 'ff' is find-font
/x {currentpoint exch pop moveto} bind def      % 'x' is absolute x positioning
/n {currentpoint exch pop 0.0 exch vpitch sub moveto} bind def % 'n' is newline
/v {/vpitch exch def} bind def                  % 'v' is vertical line height
......[many lines removed]........
1800 x /Optima 300 ff 83 h (Optima)p n
n
1800 x /Palatino-Roman 300 ff 75 h (P)p 141 h ( latino)p 
1972 x (a)p n
n
1800 h ( )p /Symbol 300 ff 75 h (Symbol)p n
n
1800 x /Times-Roman 300 ff (Times)p n
n
1800 x /Helvetica 300 ff 83 h 0.5 setgray (gray)p n
savevm restore showpage

%%Trailer
mainvm restore
^D