Xref: utzoo comp.lang.postscript:8378 comp.sources.wanted:16330 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!haroldt From: haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca (Harold Tomlinson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: ACSII text to postscript Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 91 12:53:42 GMT References: <1991Apr11.145636.462@debet.nhh.no> <1991Apr11.210439.19346@wam.umd.edu> <1991Apr16.002701.17403@bmers145.bnr.ca> <1991Apr16.154707.9283@wam.umd.edu> Sender: news@yunexus.YorkU.CA Organization: York Computing Services Lines: 36 In-reply-to: rustyh@wam.umd.edu's message of 16 Apr 91 15:47:07 GMT In article <1991Apr16.154707.9283@wam.umd.edu> rustyh@wam.umd.edu (Michael Katzmann) writes: > In article <1991Apr16.002701.17403@bmers145.bnr.ca> friedman%chekov@uunet.uu.net writes: > > > >Being in need of a program to allow our printers to handle postscript > >and ascii transparently, I tried the 'dumb' ascii program recently > >posted by Michael Katzmann. Unfortunately, either it or I am too > >dumb :-) since it appears that once this program is loaded into a > >printer there is no way to revert to normal postscript operation short > >of powering off the printer. Besides this the printer is extremely > >slow since the code seems to process input a character at a time. > > > >Come on guys, what is *THE BEST* unix solution to this problem? > > > If you send an EOF (ctrl D) to the printer, the read will return false > and the Finish routine will execute. Problem solved! Sorry I didn't > say this in the comments. > > Also strip off the comments to the programme and it will take 1/2 the > time to download it. (You can't win. sigh) Why not convert the text to postscript? I picked up a nice converter program called 'lwf'. It could be modified to detect if the file is postscript or not by looking for the %! at the start of the file or... Write a shell script that will detect if it is postscript and pipe it through lwf. I picked up the 'LaserWriter filter' in comp.sources.misc. It was posted by brachman@grads.cs.ubc.ca (or, at least then shar file was created by him). This program has worked for me on QMS's, HP's, and an Apple. -- # Harold Tomlinson ## haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca # # Computing & Communications Services ## (416)736-5257-33802 # # YORK UNIVERSITY, Ont, CANADA ## ########################### #