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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
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Date: 10 Jul 88 20:18:36 GMT
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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