Postscript printer question

[jkubik]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 11:40 -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 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!!
> 
To be honest, you lost me.
What OS is this running on?
what is the data source?
What is the ultimate data destination?
Why are you changing the character ~ ?

Cheers,
-Joseph-

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