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From: flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need postscript and/or printer utility
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Date: 12 Oct 89 12:35:47 GMT
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>Is there a utility out there that will simply take a postscript file and send
>it to the printer without having to interpret the file?  My problem is
>this:  I can generate a postscript file from a certain program at home.
>However, the only laser printer I have access to is at the office.  For
>various reasons, I cannot run the program from home on the Mac at the
>office.  What I can do is bring in the postcript file on disk.  ...

You don't need to go the postscript route for this home work -> office
printer situation.  A program that was designed for exactly this is
Glue, and its successors SuperGlue and SuperGlue II.  You wouldn't
know it from their ads, but it basically offers a print to disk
facility and then a facility for taking a disk image file and viewing
in on screen or printing it on a printer, with various bells and
whistles.  I think it uses quickdraw rather than postscript (you can't
view postscript on-screen, for example, though it will print it on a
postscript printer), but it works great.  For example, I've used it to
get all my MacInTax output printed (copies of IRS forms plus my filled
in info), running MacInTax at home and printing on a laserwriter
elsewhere, and noticed no problems.