Re: A picture of Mz. Ada

[agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu !nuchat!leeweyr!bill@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Lee)]

In article <1993Jul21.220518.13645@alsys.com> kst@alsys.com (Keith Thompson @pu
lsar) writes:
>In article <CAIoIx.IFD@scr.siemens.com> masticol@scr.siemens.com (Steve Mastic
ola) writes:
>...
>> A further note: ladyada.ps chokes Hewlett-Packard printers. A pass
>> through pstoepsi cured that problem.
>
>I found that there's an extraneous control-D character at the beginning
>of the file.  Since the file is over half a megabyte, mostly on one
>line (!), you may not be able to edit it.  If you're on a Unix system,
>something like this should work:
>   
>   tail +2c ladyada.ps > ladyada.fixed.ps
>
>(but first "head -1 ladyada.ps | cat -v" to verify that the control-D
>is there.)


I downloaded ladayada.ps at ~1/2 megabyte. I encountered the ^D
and all-on-one-line problem, too, but solved it by running the file
through pslinewrap (available from the Adobe file server).

I wanted to save the PS image, but at ~1/2 megabyte, it was of
marginal utility. However, the file (typical of many PS files with
big images) compresses to ~78 kb. Even uuencoded it is ~108 kb.

Regards,

Bill