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- From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Subject: Re: Filtering ^D from PS files
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:15:58 GMT
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- Richard P. Daley (rpd@twinkletoes.sbi.com) wrote:
- : I understand that some PC software is in the habit of creating Postscript files
- : which contain ^D characters, to make printing via serial connections work.
- : I have various software packages on my SPARCStation which print, fax, and view
- : Postscript files, and some of these packages don't like finding ^D characters
- : imbedded in the Postscript. I'd like to use a simple filter to get rid of the
- : ^D characters.
-
- It may help to concatenate your PostScript file after the following:
-
- %!
- <04> cvn {} def
-
- which redefines the ^D as a no-op to PostScript. You might also
- want to try a similar trick for the ^Z with <1A> instead of <04>.
- This should preserve those characters in binary images.
-
-