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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Postscript and the IINT laserwriter
Message-ID: <3457@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 7 Dec 89 12:37:16 GMT
References: <110300028@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <110300028@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> jacobson@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>work of MS-DOS machines. We take these postcript files and "print" them to
>the laserwriter IINT, it takes them, the light flashes for awhile then it
>stops after a reasonable period, but we get no printout. My question has to

[ much of postscript header deleted ]

>%%Pages: (atend)
>%%BoundingBox: ? ? ? ?
>%%PageBoundingBox: 18 8 594 784
>%%For: RJacobson
>%%IncludeProcSet: "(AppleDict md)" 68 0
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  This line tells the printer to include a set of PostScript definitions
which support the nonstandard abilities of Apple's LaserWriter driver.
Usually, when these files are printed from an Apple, the definitions are
downloaded once to the printer and stay resident after that.
   From an MS-DOS machine, this does not happen.

   However, if you hit cmd-K the postscript file you get will have the Apple
header.  For some reason I am not too clear on it must be edited somewhat,
but then it can be attached to the file and printed from any machine without
leaving the definitions resident.

   If you are inclined toward programming, you can probably figure out the
details of how to get around this from a public domain package called
"macps" the source of which you can get from sumex.stanford.edu by anonymous
ftp.  Look in /info-mac/unix.


  -- Mark Wilkins