Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!umd5!zben
From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: AppleDict
Summary: There are annotated versions around
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Date: 15 Aug 90 18:49:57 GMT
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In article <36054@ut-emx.UUCP> jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu
(Jonathan Abbey) writes:

> ... if there might be an annotation available for Apple's 
> AppleDict PostScript dictionary?

There are two commented version of VERY old LaserPrep files on the BMUG CD.
I have versions of 5.2 (68) and 6.0 (70) that I manually edited to work with
non-Apple printers and Apple printers on non-localtalk connections that I
did some commenting on as a sideline, but the comments are only as good as my
reverse engineering (and a lot of the comments end in question marks...)

Ed Moy out at Berkeley sources a package called MacPS that contains two 
programs.  The first one is given a command-k file, run once, and produces a
modified file.  The second one is designed to be a unix print queue filter and
inserts the appropriate version of the modified file on the fly.  If your
interest is just turnkey this might be your best bet.  MacPS is on deposit
in the sumex archive.

There is supposedly a "non-apple-laser-prep" file on deposit at sumex but I
haven't checked it to see if it has been commented.

-- 
Ben Cranston <zben@umd2.umd.edu>
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