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From: paul@steven.COM (paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II --> VAX --> LaserWriter
Message-ID: <64@steven.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 89 22:55:39 GMT
References: <2780@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Sierra Geophysics Inc., Kirkland, Wa.
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In article <2780@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
> A colleague on campus has a Mac II connected via a serial line to a VAX,
> which is in turn connected via a serial line to a LaserWriter.
> 
> He says that the PostScript files that are created using the Command-F
> method don't work.  He uploads them to the VAX and then has the VAX
> send the file to the printer ... but the Mac apparently puts extra info
> into the PostScript file that the VAX doesn't like.
> 

If you are using VMS on your VAX try /FORM=RAWDATA when you print.  You
can also check HELP PRINT to see what other options are available.  We
were having a similar problem sending data to a Tektronix 4510 rasterizer.
The VMS print utility would just hold it in the queue and wouldn't let
anything through with one of these files.







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