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From: wiseman@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Postscript and the IINT laserwriter
Summary: postscript conversion
Message-ID: <1840@tellab5.TELLABS.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 89 23:32:43 GMT
References: <110300028@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <3457@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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In article <3457@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) writes:
> 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
> 
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>    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.

For a dos machine this could give some clues but from what I've seen macps is
pretty sophisticated (a good piece of software in my mind anyway).

A much simpler hack that can provide simple document capabilities is to add the
two lines:

%!
serverdict begin 0 exitserver

to the beginning of a ps file generated with COMMAND-K. I'm not sure exactly
what it does (how's that for honesty?) but I used it for quit a while before I
discovered the wonderful macps. Note that I never tried it with graphics or
non-resident laserwriter fonts but it seemed to support basic operation ok. By
the way, I can't remember if the dos editor can handle it or not but in order
to add these two lines to the beginning of the file might be tricky as a
COMMND-K generated file can have lins that are extremely long (had to use the
cat command in unix to handle this).

good luck

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