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From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript files from Mac [Solved]
Message-ID: <JV.89Oct27115444@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 27 Oct 89 17:54:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: ram@jetsun.WEITEK.COM's message of 26 Oct 89 16:54:48 GMT


In article <JV.89Oct23153742@mhres.mh.nl| I, jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) wrote:
| When I create a PostScript file on Macintosh using the printer driver,
| However, when I want this PostScript file to be printed on another
| printer, or when I want to preview it using PostScript previewers,
| there's no such thing as LaserPrep.
| How can I create a PostScript filech is suitable for downloading to
| non-LaserWriter printers? Does there exist something like a 'fake'
| LaserPrep (or emulator) for this purpose?

Lots of people responded with something like:

|   I picked up this tip very recently: try using Command-K instead of
| Command-F when you create the Postscript file on the Mac.  Apparently
| this will include the Laser Prep stuff needed to preview. Hope this
| works for you. Good luck.

All of you - thanks a lot, but I knew this already.

I was given a pointer to Ed Moy's "psmac" program, which does
precisely what I needed: creating printer-independent PostScript files
out of Mac-created files.

Ed Moy can be reached at edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu .

Johan
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