Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu!sarrel From: sarrel@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Dumping Postscript to Disk rather than sending to printer? Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 89 18:07:09 GMT References: <3539@ogccse.ogc.edu> <2290@istop.ist.CO.UK> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 27 In-reply-to: jh@ist.CO.UK's message of 4 Jul 89 08:36:09 GMT In article <2290@istop.ist.CO.UK> jh@ist.CO.UK (Jeremy Huxtable) writes: I want to produce PostScript files on my Mac at home, where I have all the software, and then take them to work to print out, where they have the LaserWriter, but not the software. I tried installing the LaserWriter driver and doing Command-F, but the driver insists that a real LaserWriter is present before it will do anything. Is there any way round this? Well, when you print on your Mac at home, you not only have to install the laserwriter driver, but lie to you mac and use the chooser to say you have a laserwriter installed. Tell it that Appletalk is indeed hooked up (make sure your imagewriter is turned off) and then heed its warning to do a page setup so that it can reformat your document for the laserwriter. Then I think there is a program from Adobe that will allow you to download a postscript file to a laserwriter at work. I'm not sure of the details, though, I've never used it. Or, if you have a UNIX system you can use a program called macps (avail from sumex.stanford.edu) that will send your mac generated ps file to a postscript printer hooked up to UNIX. Get macps, install it, and try to use it before you ask me any questions... :-) -=- "Master, why is the letter 'i' the symbol for current?" "Because there is no letter 'i' in the word 'current'." "Master, why do we use the letter 'j' for sqrt(-1)?" "Because we use the letter 'i' for current." Whereupon the Master struck the Disciple, and the Disciple became enlightened.