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From: jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Apple Pref 5.2 6.0 diffs
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Date: 22 Oct 89 21:56:20 GMT
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In article <761@hutto.UUCP> henry@hutto.UUCP (Henry Melton) writes:
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>I made a design error in a recent reporting program by including
>captured postscript images from a Macintosh.  It worked quite well, with
>my hand-coded postscript and the Mac images printing correctly on the
>LaserWriter II NTX.  Then, we changed from the version 5.2 of
>LaserWriter to 6.0.  Now, all of my captured postscript is invalid, and
>nothing prints.  I am squeaking by this deadline by temporarily
>reloading the 5.2 software into the printer, but very soon now I will
>have to re-do all the artwork ... unless there is a quick compatibility
>fix I can insert into the files that will let the 5.2 created images
>still run under the 6.0 driver.

Along these lines, could someone summarize for me the role of the AppleDict?
Specifically, I have a MacDrawII drawing dumped using Apple's QuickDraw
dictionary macros, and it will not print correctly on LaserWriters using
older drivers (the drawing is a logo with a ring of letters perpendicular
to the tangent of the circle.. on the old drivers, these letters only come
out at 90 degree increments).. is the AppleDict driver dependent?  Can I
dump the AppleDict to laserwriters with older drivers in a save/restore pair?

This drawing will be used as part of a bulletin that will be generated on
a Unix machine and dumped to 12 LaserWriters of various types throught a lab.

Any help would be appreciated.. I would also appreciate any information as
to what literature I should obtain for more information.. we have the Adobe
Red Book, but that's it.

Thanks!



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