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From: f85-bli@byse.nada.kth.se (Bengt Lidgard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript on a Mac
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.132326.23728@kth.se>
Date: 12 Mar 91 13:23:26 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.054847.3329@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1991Mar8.054847.3329@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au> fozzy@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Andrew Steele) writes:

>Question 1
>Can someone tell me how to save the output of one of these packages,
>i.e. the postscript that would go to the laserjet, to a file which I
>could then send up to one our vax boxes and print on the laser printer
>there.
>I have read here about something to do with pressing Command-F during
>printing but I couldn't get it to work could someone explain it in
>more detail, remember I'm a novice to Mac jargon.

Just after typing RETURN or clicking the OK-box in the last print menu,
you must, FAST as LIGHTNING, depress and hold Cmd-F!! This will give
you a file called Postscript#
(Cmd-K contains the AppleDict-(AppleTalk) laserprep file as well). 
I posted a patched AppleDict laserprep last week to this newsgroup 
(article number 6729 in reply to 6708.) (Apple copyright ?)

>
>Question 2
>This is almost the reverse of question 1.  How can I send a straight
>postscript file to a Laserwriter through a Mac?  I've got the file
>"sendps.sit.hqx" from the adobe file server but I need BinHex 4.0 to
>unpack it.  Will this work?  If so can someone either send me a copy
>if it's PD or point me where I can get it from?  Does this
>automatically make it an application or do I need to do something to
>make the Mac realise its an executable rather than a data file.

Not enough!
You need one of the best programs for the Mac: Stuffit (1.51 or Deluxe)
- bla.bla.hqx 
means that the file has been converted to Hex (Stuffit can "reBINify" it)
- bla.sit 
means that the file (bin) has been compressed with StuffIT.

If you get hold of Stuffit you can unpack YOUR file. (both operations)

I am told that the Adobe file-server will send you SENDPS.hqx.
In which case the program BinHex 4.0 will be enough. 
Unfortunately I have no idea on how you send requests to Adobe!!

Advice: get hold of Stuffit !!!

Cheers,
Bob