PostSript printing of .EPS file

[rmdigby]

Stryggling here..New to PostScript so I'm try to take it a pieces at a time. The ultimate end is to put together a magazine ad before the middle of next week with 4 color separation, etc. I loaded a "Generic" PostPrint driver from Adobe and set it up to print to a file....but there is no file extension added to the filenamr and when I put .eps on just for the heck of it, a "filght test" program I am using to test the files does not recognize it as a eps file. I really don't have a good understanding of the relationship between .ps, .eps, and .pdf so a link to good simple overview would also help.
Thaks,
Randy

 

[tgreer]

Your printfile likely has PJL control codes surrounding the PostScript. Those are codes that tell your printer "hey, PostScript on the way...".

Open the file in a text editor and delete everything before the "%!PS" line and after the last "%%EOF" line.

PostScript is a programming language. EPS files are PostScript programs structured in a specific way to act as placeable images. PDF is a document structure that uses the PostScript imaging model internally, but is static (no programming code) and constructed as a collection of objects and indices to those objects.





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