Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!ariel!ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!richard From: richard@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Richard Begg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: WordPerfect and Postscript Message-ID: <659@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> Date: 14 May 91 23:10:44 GMT References: <1991May14.183903.24551@tcom.stc.co.uk> Sender: news@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au Reply-To: richard@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Richard Begg) Organization: University of Melbourne Lines: 34 In article <1991May14.183903.24551@tcom.stc.co.uk>, pauld@tcom.stc.co.uk (Paul Davies) writes: |> In article fechuny@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (felix chung yau) writes: [ problems with WP -> SUN -> LW deleted ] |> |> I basically also did what you did, WordPerfect (PC) --> SUN --> laserwriter, and |> also had a problem. I can't remember whether some or none of the file was |> printed but heres what I had to do to get it to work on our set up. |> |> It was solved by simply deleting the additional white space characters in front |> of the "%" sign on the very first line of the postscript file. The % must be the |> very first charactacter for it to print ok on our SUN/lazerwriter set up. |> |> Regards |> Paul |> |> |> |> -- |> Paul Davies Network Management Engineering Centre |> STC Telecommunications, Oakleigh Road South |> New Southgate, London N11 1HB |> email: pauld@tcom.stc.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)81 945 3605 The problem you are describing may well be caused by lpr's interpretation of the file... if the %... is not on the first line, lpr will probobaly not pick the file as postscript. This can be overridden by using lpr -v instead. -- Richard Begg (richard@asis.unimelb.edu.au) Programmer ASIS/ITS - University of Melbourne