Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!munnari.oz.au!csc.anu.edu.au!manuel!anucsd!antares!steve From: steve@antares.anu.oz.au (Steven Ball) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: POSTSCRIPT PRINTER DEFINITION FILES Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 91 01:39:00 GMT References: <78887F7EC24000A9@BITNET.CC.CMU.EDU> Sender: news@anucsd.anu.oz.au (USENET News software) Organization: ANU Department of Computer Science Lines: 24 CCEWCH@NUSVM.BITNET writes: >Have anybody out there have heard of 'Postscript Printer Definition' file >. It is mentioned in one of the 3com printer server manual. It says that >each postscript printer should comes with this file so that the printer >can support this printer base on the definition in there. > >Right now, it supports laserwriter II NTX v47.0. I am using a TI micro- >laser which emulate a laserwriter II NTX v53.x. So, I can get it to work. >When I check with the supplier of the printer, they do not know what >I meant. I have a copy of those PPD files, if any one can read postscript >I can send you to inspect. > >Can somebody help ? Thanks in advance. Perhaps the manual means the *.PRD files that MS Word, etc, use? For Word you need POST.PRD. -- Steven Ball, Department of Computer Science, ANU E-mail: steve@anucsd.anu.edu.au Ph. (06) 2495147 Snail-mail: GPO Box 4, CANBERRA CITY ACT 2600, AUSTRALIA He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!