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From: anderson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Success in Mac porting from Geos?
Summary: New from the net, marginal improvement
Message-ID: <1738@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 20 Nov 89 15:20:25 GMT
References: <1714@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> <89322.205352JKT100@PSUVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: anderson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson)
Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
Lines: 40
Keywords:Geos, Mac, Paint, conversions

Since we last wrote...

Randy Winchester wrote me (thanks randy) to note that he
had been a beta tester for the MAC<-->GEO/Paint conversion software. 
He said, and I tried, that you should download the Geos->Mac converted
MacPaint picture as a 'MacBinary'.  The  Resource fork >IS< contained
in the file.  Non-Mac computers (I assume) such as the Sun I use at
work are savvy to this and skip the resource fork portion of
the MacPaint image.  This has been marginally successful - the image
is now recognized as a MacPaint image, but has a few errors... this may
be the result of other factors, which I will be toying with... 

BTW - the other issue lately discussed, namely that of GeoWrite
conversion, is true  - I have successfully printed a GeoWrite doc
on our Sun LaserWriter (really an Apple Laserwriter in disguise).

The main trick is 1) use the PS.patch to 'fix' your copy of GeoLaser,
(that was posted here by some well meaning hacker  wasn't it?)
2)printing your file with that (produces a sequential text postscript file)
and 3)sending that file to a computer that can print  it as postscript.
At my site I must add a header to the file for it to be recognized 
properly - something like:

%!PS-Adobe-1.0
%%Creator: ssd1a:anderson (Joel Anderson)
%%Title: stdin
%%CreationDate: Mon Nov 20 08:56:20 1989
%%DocumentFonts: Times-Roman Times-Italic Times-Bold Symbol Times-Roman DIThacks
%%Pages: (atend)
%%EndComments

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