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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Inserting Mac PostsScript figures
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Date: 19 Mar 91 16:41:41 GMT
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In-Reply-To: neumann@FUNCTION.MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU's message of 12 Mar 91 16:25:08 GMT

In article <9103121625.AA04765@brubeck.mps.ohio-state.edu> neumann@FUNCTION.MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU ("Walter D. Neumann") writes:

     1. Edit in correct BoundingBox commands into the figs.
     2. Include lprep68.pro using the dvips \special{header=lprep68.pro}.

   HOWEVER, this will NOT print on our HP PostScript printer, nor preview
   correctly with Sun's pageview.  Nothing I have tried will do either of
   these.

Others have suggested using programs that will export proper EPSF;
that is probably good advice if you can afford it and/or need those
programs anyway.  I have adopted a cheaper solution:  Noting that the
laserprep file inlcudes code that appears to be printer dependent, I
just commented out those lines, and I can now print on an Imagen
UltraScript printer (a PS clone).

I commented out the line starting like this:

currentfile statusdict begin serverdict begin product (LaserWriter II NT)...

and all following lines up to,  and including the one starting with

6eb9e36ec45bad2a0b82829a...

The next line, which I kept, begins

/sc {60 45 {abs...

Hope this works for you as well as it did for me.

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY