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From: sam@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Sam Tan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MS Word Postscript
Message-ID: <6750@wolfen.cc.uow.oz>
Date: 18 Jan 91 07:11:31 GMT
References: <NWC.91Jan17103122@galileo.shearson.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Uni of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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nwc@galileo.shearson.com (Nick Christopher) writes:


>I just used the "command-f before print ok" trick to get postscript from MS
>Word.  Problem was that the postscript I got seemed like trash. When I moved it
>to a sun and looked at it with a software postscript interpreter there were all
>sorts of undifined operators... 

>Does MS Word first dowlown some homemade postscript operators which it then
>uses in all it printing?

>If so can there definitions be obtained?  

>My goal here is to get usable (by any postscript interpreter) postscript from
>MS Word on the MAC.

The LaserPrep driver is downloaded to the LW before any printing is done.

To obtain a PostScript file including this Prep, use Cmd-K instead of Cmd-F.

Enjoy!

sam@wolfen.cc.uow.edu.au