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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1, Postscript 2 and Lexmark Optra R+ printers
Message-ID: <kientzleDLvMzu.Jq2@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <30FFCA7F.167EB0E7@bottlenose.com> <DLJsus.59w@yedi.iaf.nl>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 05:52:42 GMT
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In article <DLJsus.59w@yedi.iaf.nl>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote:
>Tom Billman <trb@bottlenose.com> writes:
>
>>Dearest Netters,
>
>>It appears to me that FreeBSD 2.1 generates postscript files in version
>>3.0 format. The little header at the beginning of the postscript file
>>leads me to believe this.
>>Example:
>>%!PS-Adobe-3.0
>>%%Creator: A2ps version 4.3
<sigh> The `3.0' here has nothing to do with PostScript `Level's. It
indicates conformance with something called `Adobe Document
Structuring Conventions'. Essentially, this line informs anyone who
cares (good printers _don't_care_) that this is a well-behaved
PostScript file that has special comments indicating interesting parts
of the file. These special comments allow utilities such as `psutils'
to rearrange the order of pages, produce thumbnails, and perform
similar magic. They are also needed to utilitize the page-selection
features of PostScript previewers such as ghostview.
In actual fact, I'm pretty certain that A2ps generates nice, clean
PostScript Level 1 output that should be easily handled by any
Level 2 OR Level 2 PostScript printer.
- Tim Kientzle