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From: gelphman@adobe.COM (David Gelphman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: how to print a pre-existing postscript to Laserwriter?
Message-ID: <5886@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 90 00:00:22 GMT
References: <1990Aug14.193244.10365@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: gelphman@adobe.UUCP (David Gelphman)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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In article <1990Aug14.193244.10365@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> jeg@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (John E. Girard) writes:
>
>From time to time, we receive files off the net that contain
>documents and pictures in postscript format.  Printing these
>files is no big deal on a UNIX or DOS box:  I just cat the
... stuff deleted
>have a mac or time to experiment.  I called Apple and they 
>said I had to buy a program called PS Dump from Adobe.  Imagine
>that! having to buy a program to do raw I/O!
   There is a program that Adobe makes available called SendPS. It
lets you send a text file to whatever printer you have selected in
the chooser of your Macintosh. The program is available from the usual
places: the Adobe Forum on Compuserve, the Sumex archives, etc.
   You can also get an equivalent program from the Adobe file server.
Send a message to 'ps-file-server@adobe.com' and make the subject
line 'help'. You will receive (in a day or two) a message telling you
how to use the server. When you find out how to retrieve programs get
the program 'MacDistillPS.sit.hqx'. It is a stuffit archive and the
program Distill will allow you to send PostScript files to your printer
AS PostScript files, not listings of your PostScript programs.
   Hope this helps, 
David Gelphman
Adobe Systems Incorporated