Re: [hylafax-users] Making a cover sheet

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:13:08PM +1100, Peter Nunn wrote:
> Hi folks,  I'm trying to follow the directions in the FAQ about making a
> cover sheet, and have got a Word doc that I want to use as a cover sheet.
> 
> Now, I took that into acrobat and turned it into a PDF and then tried to
> export from there to a .ps file but every time I do I get an error saying
> "An image uses a color space which will not separate correctly in some
> applications" and it blows up.
> 
> Any ideas how I get from a .doc to a .ps file and still have the output in
> ASCII?

As a start, I'd use Save to File, with some nice boring black and white
printer selected, like the Apple 16/600, which is what I use for WHFC
setups.  I didn't realise that the FAQ advocated dealing with PDFs at
all, but I wouldn't.

> I actually got it to work once (using Level 2) but the text body was in
> binary of some type.

Yeah, if you include an image, you're probably going to have to deal
with that; PostScript programs are *not* guaranteed to be in ASCII-7.
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Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra@baylink.com
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