Postscript printer question

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   I've got a bit of a problem... I've got a perl script that looks at a 
PS file that I print from OpenOffice2.

   The program (which I can't modify) reads the postscript and looks for 
'~' (tilde) and substitutes in values where they are found. I have tried 
creating a printer (the recommended printer is the Apple LaserWriter NT) 
and told to print in PostScript level 1. Then I print a given document 
to a file using this (dummy) printer.

   The problem is that when I look at the resulting PS file instead of 
getting '~' where appropriate I am getting (the ASCII?) '<7E>' instead. 
Has anyone run into this before? If so, any idea how to tell it to print 
the tilde instead of the ASCII?

   As an aside, when the same printer in PS level 1 is used on MS' 
Office the result is the tilde and I need to mimic this behavior.

Thanks!!

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