Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!uwvax!speedy!engber From: engber@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Engber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Generating PostScript files Summary: efficiently uploading them to a UNIX system Keywords: postscript, UNIX Message-ID: <5950@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 10 Jul 88 20:18:36 GMT References: <2393@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <76000254@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: engber@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Engber) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 18 I see a lot of postings on this subject where the recommended solution is to use command-k instead of command-f. I'd like to make one point: using command-k adds a 30K header to your file. If you're uploading these files (like me) it is wasteful to do this with every file. What I did was use command-k on a simple picture, and stripped off the header which I uploaded once. I generate subsequent postscript files with command-f and cat on the header before printing with something like: cat mac.header file.ps | lpr One note: when I initially created the header it didn't begin with the magic %! so I had to add it myself. Now I have one question, what potential problems am I in for by using a header generated with one version of system software and postscritpt file generated with a different version (so far I've had no problems) -ME