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From: auvhess@auvc6.tamu.edu (David K. Hess)
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Subject: PostScript escape sequence
Keywords: Laserwriter printcap
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Date: 28 Feb 91 14:59:37 GMT
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I'm working with somebody who has a NeXT hooked to another machine which
is supporting a Laserwiter. We can send straight text files easily since
the other machine preps the Laserwriter which then takes the passed file
from the NeXT and prints it as text. However this poses a problem when
you want to print a PostScript file from the NeXT. The PostScript just
gets printed as text since we cannot disable the prep stuff.

Somebody on the net posted a while back the escape sequence that you can
put at the top of a PostScript file to kick the Laserwriter back in to
the interpreter mode. Does anybody still have that and could they e-mail
it to me?

My intention is to develop a printcap entry and filter that will make the
Laserwriter look like two printers, one for text printing and one for Post-
Script printing. The PostScript entry would automatically put the escape
sequence at the top of the file before shipping it out.

If there is interest I will post the results of this to the net.

Thanks.

Dave Hess
Graduate Student 
Texas A&M University
auvhess@auvsun1.tamu.edu