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From: mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Encapsulated PostScript files
Message-ID: <EZAJtMO00WBKQ34JNi@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 89 03:13:28 GMT
References: <20200056@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Class of '91, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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In-Reply-To: <20200056@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>

In article <20200056@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>, Erik A. Johnson
<johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:
>Has anyone out there tried using the "Encapsulated PostScript" files
that are
>produced when typing Command-F when printing to a Laser Printer?  I'm
getting
>that to work correctly, but how does one actually send the files that
are
>created to the printer itself?  I try selecting the PostScript file in
the
>Finder and use the "Print" command -- it opened up MPW and printed the
actual
>text of the PostScript rather than sending it directly to the printer.

A few solutions, preceded by a nitpick:

nitpick -- the files produced by holing down the 'f' key are not
"Encapsulated Postscript" files.  An EPSF is a postscript file which has
a PICT resource embedded in it for screen display of the graphic in
programs that can't image postscript (ie. most everything).  The file
you get when you hit 'f' is straight postscript w/o the PICT inclusion.
(I *told* you it was a nitpick. :-)

To print the beasties: (these are each solutions individually, not steps)

a) Open the text file in Microsoft Word and set the entire thing to
style "postscript".  Then print normally.  (This is not for everyone;
personally, the sight of raw postscript code makes me ill, but to each
his/her own...)

b) Use Adobe's SendPS or Font Downloader utilities to download the text
file to the printer, where it will print as postscript.  Both of these
should be available from info-mac or from anyone who has ever purchased
an adobe font.

c) Use the LaserStatus DA to download the file.  LaserStatus is part of
DiskTop, from CE Software.  If you don't have it, you should.

I'm sure there are other solutions, some slightly offbeat (my favorite:
get an RS-232 cable and a terminal emulator and plug the mac right into
the laserwriter [setting the serial emulation on the printer, of course]
and simply blast the postscript program over), but that's three workable
ones off the top of my head.

yours,
-mike