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Re: UW postscript file problem

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From: mnfr... Martin Friedrich
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 11:17
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bbr...@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:

>I downloaded the uw postcript file (I think it was on
>ucbvax at berkley) , and can't get it to print.
>I think the problem has something to do with the file beginning
>with

I downloaded and printed it without problems.

>%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0

>instead of

>%!PS-Adobe-1.0

>I think it is trying to define a font in the file and the ps printer
>here can't handle that.  Is there a way to convert it into an
>ordinary ps file?

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...

Bica,
-Efchen
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From: mnfr...@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Friedrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: UW postscript file problem
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