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From: timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Printing Uploaded Windows Postscript files from Unix 4.3bsd??
Message-ID: <3095@sparko.gwu.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 91 19:10:23 GMT
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In article <41541@netnews.upenn.edu> sal@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Marcos Salganicoff) writes:
>I am using the printer driver "Postscript File" from windows to
>generate a postscript file on disk from a windows application on a pc.
>Then I upload the postscript file to a unix system via kermit and try
>to "lpr" it onto an apple laserwriter, which promptly flashes and gives
>up.
>
>With the macintosh there are laserprep files which must be prepended
>to any file in order for it to print out. I imagine there is a similar
>"prep" file for windows, right? My questions:
>
>1.Is there any way to get windows to include the prep file (if it
>doesn't) in the postscript when the ps file is generated, or does the
>printer handler take care of it?
>

Correct.  However, this is automatically done whenever you print, unless
you turn the option off.  The keyword you're looking for is "Header",
which can be inclucded/ignored unter the Postscript setup option under
Control Panel / Printers.  You want it on.  It might be possible to 
print the header separately and never again, but I haven't gotten that
to work on our system.

>2.Is there are program which runs under unix which will automatically prepend
>the windows "prep" file?

Nope.  Like I said, it's Windows thing.  You have to send the file in raw
mode thought (on our system, it's "lp -oraw").  Our system can detect
a postscript file and switch to raw mode automatically, unless it's a
strange postscript file.

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