Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!imax!hugh
From: hugh@imax.com (Hugh Murray)
Subject: Postscript and the Laserwriter(yet again)
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.181113.13169@imax.com>
Sender: hugh@imax.com (Hugh Murray)
Organization: Imax Systems Corporation, Oakville Canada
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 18:11:13 GMT

This issue has been common recently, but I have a new slant that has not been
addressed by earlier postings that I have seen.  My Mac is connected to a
DeskWriter which serves me very well, but elsewhere in this organization a
LaserWriterII NTX running in PostScript mode has been hooked to a PC.

Just for fun I captured some PostScript output on the Mac (using cmnd-K), and
copied the file to a PC disk using Apple File Exchange with text translation.
On the PC I just copied this file to the printer, which flashed its green light
for about a minute then - nothing.  Does anyone have any idea what could be
missing?  It bothers me a little that WordPerfect on a PC generates PostScript
which an Apple printer accepts happily, while output from the Mac makes it
choke.

Hugh Murray  hugh@imax.com    :   These opinions are MINE
Imax Systems Corp.
Oakville,
Ontario,
Canada.