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From: philip@Pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
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Subject: Re: Postscript output from the Macintosh <<help>>
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Date: 8 Jun 90 17:08:23 GMT
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In article <20108@duke.cs.duke.edu>, mingyu@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Mingyu
Wang c/o hsg) writes:
> In article <TJFS.90Jun7165036@tadtec.uucp> tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim
Steele) writes:
> >A note about this command-F (or is it command-K) sequence: exactly
> >*how* do you type it?  I can't get it to work!
> 
> This is exactly how I typed it: open the print dialog box, hold down the
> mouse button on "OK", press command-k and hold it down, release the 
> mouse button, release command-k.
> 
> Now my problem is that this sequence works on Mac II, not on MacSE/30. I 
> speculated that in order to have it work, a printer has to be attached 
> to the Mac.  But if I have a LaserWriter for the Mac, probably I do not
> need the postscript file to be generated.

No, you don't need the printer to be attached. However, you should turn
background printing off in Chooser, making sure you have selected
LaserWriter as the printer type (and of course you need to have Laser
Prep and LaserWriter in the System Folder).

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu