postscript error

[Helge Blischke]

john boyden wrote:
> 
> You're almost certainly right about non-comformance with modern
> postscript.  My program was written around 1987 and modified in
> 2001 to provide color.  It's kind of a do-all program so I don't
> write postscript very often and I've kind of forgotten it.
> The first line of the program is:
> 
>   %!PS-Adobe-1.0 EPSF
> 
> So it doesn't conform to DSC.
> 
> I have the second edition PostScript Language Reference Manual
> so I guess I'll have to get to work (I'm overloaded now, CUPS was
> a minor disaster).  A sample of the program is:
> 
>   ftp://howard.astro.ucla.edu/pub/obs/special_request/m720801.ps
> 
> Thank you for the info.  John Boyden

Well, change the first line to 
	%!
or, at most, 
	%!PS
and it *will* print (without specifying the "-o raw" option).

Helge

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