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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Sending PostScript bits back to Mac
Summary: help on getting bits maps.
Message-ID: <17138@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 15 Oct 89 05:12:19 GMT
References: <1989Oct12.162653.1960@lth.se>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <1989Oct12.162653.1960@lth.se>, sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m) writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a beginner in PostScript but I think I have complex
> task to solve. I would like to send a bitmap created by
> the LaserWriter back to my Mac. There are some products
> like LaserTalk which makes the LW echo the result to the
> Mac instead of printing it.
> The standard set of PS commands doesn't seem to include
> commands which makes it possible.  
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> /Lars Sundstroem

currently I know of only 1 reliable way.  If you have a NTX with a hard
disk, apparently you can grab certain bit maps back, and read them using
some of the disk commands.  Don Lancaster published a short blurb about
this some months ba
in his column in the computer shopper.
his phone number is 602-428-4073