Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!convex.cl.msu.edu!slassini From: slassini@convex.cl.msu.edu (lassini stefano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: PostScript Help Message-ID: <1991Apr23.001139.6507@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 00:11:39 GMT References: Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 42 johhog@cia.docs.uu.se (Johan H|gberg) writes: >In gad@linac.fnal.gov (Greg A. Deuerling) writes: >>Hello, I hope some one out there can help me. >>I have a DPaint picture I want to print out on a laser printer at work. >>The laser printers we have are hooked up to Apples (yuck) or VMS >>machines (double yuck). Question: Is there any PD or commercial soft- >>ware that will convert this IFF picture into a Postscript file ??? And >>once it is a Postscript file how do I print it out from a Apple or a VMS >>machine ??? Any help and or tips will be much apprieciated. >> Thanks. >> gad >I haven't done this by myself but I'm pretty sure that PageStream can do this. >You will have to import the IFF picture to the dokument and print it out as >postscript. >At my work I have been printing out postscript files by sending them to the >devices LN02_PS or LN06_PS. Of course they don't have to have this names at >your VMS system but I would suggest that you make "show queue *" and see for >yourself what queues you have to your printers. >Maybe Aldus Freehand to Machintosh can read a postscript file...just a guess. > >/Johan Without resorting to PageStream it is possible to use a PD thingie called iff2ps... I used it to send some IFF files to our laserwriter][ thru the network and it worked fine. I do not remember exactly where I got it, but a quick guess would be to ftp to ab20.larc.nasa.gov and snoop around. As far as printing, probably the easiest [it could be the only] way to do so is to copy the file to one of the machines that are connected to the printer [if everything fails try a kermit file transfer or the such] and then follow the machine-specific instructions. Hope this answer your question. Stefano Lassini slassini@convex.cl.msu.edu