Re: UW postscript file problem SOLVED

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From: bbr... Bailey Brown
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 22:10

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mnfr...@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Friedrich) writes:

>It doesn't matter what you write behind the '%!'
>PostScript just checks if the file is beginning with '%!'.
>All characters behind these two are ignored. Fonts are declared otherwise.
>But I don't know what your problem is. I've heard of people trying to
>print ps-files on a non-ps-printer...

It most definitely is a postcript printer, but it apparently does not 
know what to do with files that define their own fonts.  The file
does contain several type1 fonts because these fonts are not built in to 
the printer.

I successfully printed the file on an Apple Laserwriter Plus.

>Bica,
>-Efchen
>--
>  My .signiture is on strike, and demands 13 lines with lots of whitespace

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Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbr...@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum

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Subject: Re: UW postscript file problem SOLVED
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