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From: shatara@islnds.enet.dec.com (Chris Shatara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: laserwriter
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Date: 21 Sep 90 13:11:28 GMT
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In article <NAGENDRA.90Sep20094351@bucsf.bu.edu>, nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) writes...
>Just a question
> 
>it. If you press open-apple F it prints to a file on the disk.
>If you download the file to a unix system and try to print to a postscript
>printer, nothing works.  Only problem is, is there a way to print
>encapuslated postscript on a regular postscript printer?  Is ther a unix

I have been doing this for quit some time now on printers tied to VAX's at 
work.  The key I found was to edit the postscript file and remove the 
first line or so of control characters.  The first line of the file should 
begin with 

    %!PS-Adobe....

This will probably clear up your problem.

/chris

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