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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Postcript
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Date: 9 Feb 91 15:21:06 GMT
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From jake@labpca.mscs.mu.edu (Jake Buchholz):

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> This is my question.  How?  Is there anything special that needs to
> be done?  Say I loaded this postscript file into WordPerfect or
> MacWrite II, wouldn't it attempt to print the postscript file as if
> it was merely any old text file in the default font? 

    That's a trap a lot of people fall into (it seems).  You will need a word
processor which knows that the text file it is sending is a PostScript
program, and not just some program listing.  MS Word 4.0 is capable of doing
that, but I don't know about WordPerfect (MacWrite II definitely won't cut
it).  Better yet, get your hands on a LaserWriter utility such as CE Widgets
, SendPS or LaserStatus.  They can download any text file to the printer as a
PostScript program.  I would suggest this method since Word forces you to go
through a rather bothersome routine.

Brian T. Tao  {taob@pnet91.cts.com} ||  Computer guru?  Someone who got
University of Metro Toronto         ||  their computer a couple of weeks
Scarberia, ON, MIC 3A8         *B-) ||  before you did.  (Alvin Toffler)