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From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Generating Postscript files.
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Date: 15 May 91 15:54:28 GMT
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Reply-To: kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (kent L. Shephard)
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Yea, it's me again with another question.

I have a '040 system and I want to print to a file so I can take it to
my PC and print.

Now the problem:

I know I can select print and then save via the save button.  The problem
is that when I take this file to my PC to be printed it coughs and pukes
and gives me an error.

I'm using a software postscript interpretor.  This should not be the
problem because I can take postscript files generated by programs on my
pc and print them fine.  I can do the same with Mac files.  If I take
a postscript file from my PC to my NeXT and use the postscript viewer to
look at it everything is fine.

The one thing I did notice is that a Postscript file with no graphics
generated by my PC word processor (Wordstar 5.5) is only slightly larger
than the original text file.   On the NeXT a file generated by WordPerfect
is 10 times larger. So what's the deal????  Is ther a specific way to
print to a file so it looks like the other types of postscript files
I've seen.

My PC is running Goscript and it does Postscript interpretation and sends
it to the printer it is configured for.  The files from a NeXT are the
only ones I have trouble with.


      Thanks in advance.  I would like to print but right now I can't
                          justify the expense of a NeXT laser printer.

                 KeNT
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