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4.7 Your PostScript magic number
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a2ps produces full DSC conformant PostScript (Note: Glossary).  Adobe
said
     Thou shalt start your PostScript DSC conformant files with
          %!PS-Adobe-3.0

   The bad news is that some printers will reject this header.  Then you
may change this header without any worry since the PostScript produced
by a2ps is also 100% PostScript level 1(1).

 -- Configuration Setting: OutputFirstLine: MAGIC-NUMBER
     Specify the header of the produced PostScript file to be
     MAGIC-NUMBER.  Typical values include '%!PS-Adobe-2.0', or just
     '%!'.

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) That is to say, there are no PostScript printers that don't
understand these files.