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From: maxc1503@ucselx.sdsu.edu (David Tse)
Subject: Re: A-Max Compendium
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.095529.28307@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services
References: <91084.174933JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 09:55:29 GMT

JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:

>I am putting the finishing touches on my personal list of
>frequently asked A-Max questions.  Below is a list of the
>topics/questions it covers.  If you have any to add, please
>e-mail me or reply here to c.s.a.e soon.  The resulting
>list will be posted here later this week.  Thanks!
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Way to go - frequent asked Qs about AMax!
I've posted my difficult questions some months ago, but nobody could give me 
any answers, a lot of replies are that they wanted to know too. So here they
are again:

1. MacPrint or JetLink Express, the commercial printer drivers for various
   non-QuickDraw (non Mac type) printers including HP Deskjet series and
the Laserjet series,etc.
	a. Do they work on AMaxII? how well? on a real Mac, you have to 
connect to the serial port since there are no parallel ports. Does it 
perform ok on the parallel port ? (the ImageWriter emulations on AMax can be
sent to either, as I remember)

2. If answer to the above is yes, then does Adobe Type Manager work fine on
these set up? I know on c.s.mac , someone reported it worked well on a real
Mac, with MacPrint and ATM. (especially the ATM 2.0, or other fonts software
works this way).

My system is A3000/25/50, AMaxII w/ 800K FD (20MB HD partition), HP Deskjet
Plus printer. 1M chip and 1M fast, but going to get 4M more sooner / later.

I think this is important - since the Imagewriter emulations on AMaxII still
has a problem, and not all Amiga users have Epson compatible printers which
AMax only supports in IW emulations, so the alternative for getting a specific
printer just for AMax , an overkill, is to find out how well those printer
drivers work. (unless you got a Postscript printer, but does it go thru the
serial port, or need Appletalk?)

Another good but less essential topic for the list would be:
How to transfer a Postscript file saved in Mac/AMax environment to Amiga
(using the AMax transfer utilities software, obviously), and print it on
the Amiga side, using Pixelscript (or any postscript to non-postscript
printing converter) , to a non-postscript printer (e.g. Deskjet or Epson, etc)?

The essence of my question is: how do you edit the resource fork and 
the data fork on a mac file when you transfer over the file?
Is the file transfer program in AMaxII sufficient in doing this?

good luck,
thanks a lot,
David