Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!tybalt.caltech.edu!toddpw From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Postscript Message-ID: <1990Apr13.200226.24696@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> Date: 13 Apr 90 20:02:26 GMT References: <23519@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Sender: news@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 35 jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) writes: System 6.0 feature I hope they include: POSTSCRIPT FILE GENERATION FROM THE PRINT DIALOG!! OA-F is reasonable but shouldn't be necessary... who'd figure it out if they didn't ask? Also, hardcoding the system to not fire up a driver called 'laserwriter' if Appletalk is not present sounds yucky to me. There should be an option of the driver ITSELF to optionally start up if Appletalk is not present. Especially because Appletalk may not be present when the system boots, but will be plugged in later. Serial ports & ADB are very robust in that you can plug and unplug them while the system is on -- this convenience is MUCH appreciated. >I still have my font troubles, especially because I do NOT use a mac... >I upload the files to a Unix Workstation that my apple is hooked to via >the terminal port. Then I run a trivial binary on it called macps that >makes the file ready to be downloaded to an Apple Laserwriter on the >network. The Laserwriter is an NTX, which should have all sorts of neat >fonts in it, like Palatino and Zapff Chancery. But they aren't >recognized from my machine and are defaulted to courier or helvetica. You need to change the names of the font definitions with a text editor... whoever wrote thte laserwriter driver for 5.0 messed up on some of the font names, it seems. There's a technote about it -- when are we going to see a fix? I certainly wouldn't mind installing a patched laserwriter driver myself, the IIGS Installer is severely brain dead and I wish I could help rewrite it to support patched drivers, better version checking, and most of all -- SINGLE DRIVE SYSTEMS. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu