[Linux] printing compressed EPS files

[Stanton Fields]

On 17-Jul-00 at 08:52, Howard Allen Cohen (hacohen@bc.seflin.org) wrote:
> I tried to print documentation from the GNU Privacy Handbook ( 
> http://www.gnupg.org/gph/index.html ), which I downloaded in "compressed 
> postscript." The file has the extension  'eps," but, perhaps because it is 
> compressed, it did not print when I copied it to a PostScript printer (a HP
>  LJ III w/ PacificPage emulator, running in PS mode; the printer switched
> to  HP LJ mode and printed garbage.
> 
> Does anyone know what to do with this file?
>

Hi Howard,

I download the file "manual.ps.gz" gunziped it to "manual.ps" and it prints for
me (first few pages). I could view it with gv (ghostview). I opened the file in
a text editor and found the boundingbox to be a non letter sized (somewhat
longer and not as wide as letter sized paper).

 
				Stan The Computer Man
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