Re: misc/50116: MKREPRO: PostScript files include time stamp

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/50116; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/50116: MKREPRO: PostScript files include time stamp
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:53:25 +0000

 On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 12:20:00PM +0000, John Nemeth wrote:
  >        Many PostScript documents will start with this line:
  >  
  >  %!PS-Adobe-3.0
  >  
  >  However, they are only allowed to do so if they conform to the
  >  Docuement Structuring Convention.  A shortcut in recognizing
  >  PostScript documents would be to look for "%!" as the first two
  >  characters.  Blowing up because "%%CreationDate: " is missing is
  >  just plain broken.  BTW, a line starting with "%%" indicates a
  >  special Document Structuring Convention comment.
 
 Ok, fair enough. Many printers are "just plain broken" in one way or
 another, but like I said I hope it won't be a problem.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost