Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!ncar!tank!mimsy!dtix!dtrc!harvey From: harvey@dtrc.arpa (Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Dumping Postscript to Disk rather than sending to printer? Keywords: mac postscript printing printers Message-ID: <543@dtix.ARPA> Date: 4 Jul 89 01:39:18 GMT References: <1105@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> <217@wet.UUCP> Sender: news@dtix.ARPA Reply-To: harvey@dtrc.UUCP (Betty Harvey - Code: 1893.5) Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Carderock, MD Lines: 28 In article <217@wet.UUCP> tempest@wet.UUCP (Ken Lui) writes: >When you select LaserWriter, and do a Print..., hold down CMD-F >*immeditately* after you press the OK button. It should create a >PostScript file in your root directory. I haven't done this in >quite a while, so I don't remember what it writes exactly. I >beliefe this CMD-F trick will write the code that comes from >LaserPrep also. There's another CMD option that you can make and >it will exclude the stuff from LaserPrep; I believe it is >CMD-D--I'm not sure. > The key sequence is CMD-K. However, there are some Laserwriter dependent commands within the file that needs to be stripped out of the file if you want to print it on a non-Laserwriter postscript printer. I found a SED (Unix Stream Editor) file that strips the file nicely. I have been able to print the stripped file on both a NEC 890 and DEC LN03R printer by running the file through this editor. Its a pain-in-the-neck process, but it works. Anyone who deals with Government procurement knows that it takes at least 6 months to get a simple cable. If anyone wants the SED file, I will be glad to e-mail it to you. Just let me know. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Betty Harvey | Arpanet: or Microcomputer Support Group | harvey@nems.arpa or David Taylor Rsearch Center | cabt@dtvms.arpa ------------------------------------------------------------------