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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript from Microsoft Word 5.0
Message-ID: <2831@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 17:54:09 GMT
References: <3084@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
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In article <3084@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>, sleersse@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Scott Leerssen) writes:
# Anyway, does anyone have some advice on how I can take postscript output
# from Microsoft Word 5.0 and upload it to a unix system.  I have tried it 
# with some small text files but our printers don't seem to understand the 
# postscript as I just get blank pages.  The files start out with
# 
# %PS-Adobe-2.0
# 
# and we have Adobe 1.0 postscript if that makes any difference.  Any help is 
# appreciated and please excuse my ignorance on the subject.

You need to copy up the POSTSCRP.INI file as a prolog to the output
from Microsoft Word.  You will also need to remove the ^D at the
end of the .INI file before combining it with the output of Word.

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