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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Postcript
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.102921.5094@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 10:29:21 GMT
References: <1991Feb5.224610.1981@sarah.albany.edu>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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ag0514@leah.albany.edu (GOLDSTEIN ANDREW M) writes:

>  Also when I create this file it is huge as compared to one created on
>the Mac with a very similar one page document.

Macs download a set of PostScript subroutines to the printer in order to
avoid including them in the ps file all the time -- however each version
of the Mac Laserwriter driver has used a different (and incompatible)
'Laser Prep'. When you print from a Mac that is running a different version
than the one the Laserwriter was last printed with, you get a box about
Laser Prep and have to wait.

The GS printer drivers include their subroutines with every file and make
no assumptions about the state of the printer. I've been able to print
documents from AWGS and use the Imagewriter Emulator from Orca/Prizm without
problems and without disturbing the current state of 'Laser Prep Wars'.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu


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