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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1, Postscript 2 and Lexmark Optra R+ printers Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <DLJsus.59w@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <30FFCA7F.167EB0E7@bottlenose.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 20:28:03 GMT Lines: 26 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. I don't get the remark 'FreeBSD generates' >Example: >%!PS-Adobe-3.0 >%%Creator: A2ps version 4.3 It is a2ps that generates this PS. You better check out a2ps itself, it should be available in source format. >My Lexmark Optra R+ printer emulates PostScript level 2. Is there a >way to generate this or am i SOL. I have seen l3 documents print on l2 printers. Are you sure it doesn't work at all? And what if you change the -3.0 into 2.0 or something similar? Wilko