Adrian Barrett writes: Does anybody know if there is a difference between EPS files created under windows and linux?
Ms-windows often generates non-kosher Postscript and Encapsulated Postscript files, with bogus printer-specific commands at the beginning, or with a ctrl-D at the end, or with other material that is not part of the Adobe Postscript specification. I've always assumed that this was semi-deliberate on the part of Microsoft; they do not own (read: control) Postscript and hence deprecate it. The whole concept of device-independent formats, like Postscript, is foreign to ms-windows, which is built around a collection of device-specific drivers. You can sometimes fix ms-windows generated Postscript and Encapsulated Postscript files with a text editor. Look for and delete printer-specific junk before the `%!PS-Adobe' line that should begin the file, and a ctrl-D character at the end of the file. Unix and Linux programs are generally more reliable in the Postscript they generate because at least in some versions of Unix the Postscript is licensed from Adobe, the copyright holder. -- Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james
