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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sun (LaserWriter) Postscript Printer Driver
Keywords: Printer Driver, Postscript, Screendump
Message-ID: <7451@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 21:02:58 GMT
References: <19040@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <19040@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
$Ok, I have been generating 'screendump' graphic images on our local Sun
$laser printer (LaserWriter) by using 'Clipit' to save the image in IFF,
$and ProWrite/ProScript to generate a Postscript file that is then sent
$to the Sun fileserver via Dnet and printed with lpr. Not a big problem
$for me,
$However...
$It seems that this neat little A2500 is getting popular to use around
$here & the aforementioned method of generating screendump output is a
$bit more than anyone besides me is willing to put up with.
$Question: Is there a PostScript Printer Driver available such that I
$can then use CMD to redirect the file to my print spool directory on
$the Sun where it is automagically printed out? (from CMD on has been
$accomplished).

There have been a few IFF to PostScript utilities posted, and you
could have an IconX script that asks for the filename, and spits it
out as PostScript directly.  This would surely be simpler than loading
it into a word processor (no disrespect to ProWrite intended).  If you
do custom programming there anyway, you could write a Workbench tool
that when double clicked on with the IFF image icon also selected (using
the SHIFT key), it could print create a little script and execute it.
The little script would take the project (IFF file) icon name, create
PostScript, and send it out to the Laserwriter. 

	Just a thought.

	Paul.