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From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
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Subject: Re: (summary) How do I get PostScript from MacDraw II?
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Date: 5 Sep 90 17:39:39 GMT
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In article <67497@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) writes:
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>  Unfortunately ... I haven't been able to make the resulting PostScript
>files work.  I grabbed a copy of the Apple dictionary (68.0 via diffing
>Microsoft Word command/f and command/k outputs), prepended it to the
>PostScript0 file, but no go.  I had to remove some binary header and
>trailer from both files after ftp'ing them from the Macintosh (in binary
>mode) and then had to convert the carriage returns to line feeds, but
>nothing worked.  The printer just ate the files up and never output
>anything.  Not being a PostScript expert, I think I'll have to give up
>and just mail paper copies of the file to people.

Don't give up! Get yourself a copy of macps for your UNIX box. The application
lets you do several things:

1) You can upload JUST a laserprep and store it on your unix machine. After
that, only the command-f equivalent files need be uploaded (saves over 30K of
uploading per file)

2) A command-f file can have its appropriate laserprep "attached" to it on the
unix system.

3) The resulting postscript file will be converted so that it has not got the
loooong line lengths in it so it can be e-mailed (or edited under vi).

4) The file is altered to allow graphics and text smoothing on printers other
than the apple laserwriter.

5) And last BUT NOT LEAST, it is modified so that it does not try to implant
itself on the printer in question. The "printer ate the file and output
nothing" is the standard experience when trying to spool a standard command-k
type postscript file to a laserprinter. The vanilla command-k file only works
when printed from a mac to a printer using Adobe's printps (or something like
that. Since I started using macps, I've had no more use for the other one).

Real nice program!

By the way, you must not have gotten MY mail :-) ... Did you try capturing the
MacDraw II command-f by:

-clicking AND HOLDING on the print OK dialog
-press command-f AND HOLD
-THEN release the mouse button from the OK dialog
-Keep holding the command-f until the postscript to file dialog shows up

We had a fast machine over here that that was the only way to work it (until of
course we used MyPageSetup :-).

cheers!

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