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From: graham@maths.su.oz.au (Graham Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Word - Postscript - to - disk
Keywords: Word Postscript Print Disk
Message-ID: <graham.648113410@bizet>
Date: 16 Jul 90 07:28:58 GMT
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>I would like to
>(1)  do text and picture preparation on a Mac (using Microsoft Word
>     4.00B, Mac System 6.0.5, and LaserWriter 6.0.1),
>(2)  and write the resulting Postscript file to the Mac's disk.

>Item 2 is giving me fits! I've hacked the LaserWriter driver
>to include a "Print to Disk" box and get a file labeled Postscript0.
>This file seems to have some Apple specific stuff in the beginning
>which I don't want.  I've tried to get rid of the Apple specific stuff
>by using command-K when printing from Word (this is supposed to direct
>output to disk rather than to LaserWriter -- and do so without the
>header). All I've managed to do is incrementally kill another tree
>(waste paper).

>Can anyone offer suggestions as to how I can get the postscript without
>the Apple specific stuff? 

I am trying to get a Word 4 to make a postscript file also as I want to
print it on an apple laserwriter hooked up to an Appollo net.

Do I have to get rid of the apple specific stuff also.

Help

graham