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From: wsinkees@lso.win.tue.nl (Kees Huizing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript output from the Macintosh <<help>>
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Date: 6 Jun 90 11:43:38 GMT
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hemmat@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>	I have tried holding down the "k" key after sending a file
>to the laser-printer, and successfully generated a psc file. I then
>tried to laser-print this fie from an IBM PC, after transferring it
>of course, using TOPS and was not successful at all. I have received
>no error messages, no output, nothing what-so-ever. 

>	Is the Mac's generateed postscript different from standard 
>postscript? and if it is, is there any way to convert one to another?
>Any pointers/help will be appreciated. All I am trying to do is to
>generate standard postscript files from Mac applications and be able
>to send them to a laser printer via main-frames. 
>Thanks in advance.

This is in principle the way.  Although I do it with command-f.  On our
Postscript printers -- connected to a network --, however, things go wrong,
for some reason or the other.  We have a program called "mcvert" which removes
the problematic things *and* adds the Apple macros.  These are added by the 
command-k trick.  So I save with command-f, get a postscript file without 
macros, which is considerably smaller, and send it to the Unix machine,
convert it with mcvert and spool it to the laserprinter.  Works perfect,
especially if you use the standard Adobe fonts (Helvetica, Palatino, etc).
I have the C-source of mcvert, I don't know whether it is free.  Ask me.

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