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From: kieling@apple.com (mark kieling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LaserPrep PostScript macros
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Date: 29 May 91 15:48:40 GMT
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In article <hess.675353752@rospc1> hess@rospc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke
Hess) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I tried to save a PostScrip File with the LaserWriter printer driver and
>print it with a PostScript Interpreter on an atari st. But it failed, because
>there are macros defined with the postscript code in LaserPrep which are
>naturally not known by GhostScript (my postscript interpreter). Had anyone
>this problem too, or does anyone have the macros defined in LaserPrep?
>
>They are stored nicely in the Resource Fork, but are split in at least 25
>datasets, so it`s very boring to extract them by hand.
>
>Hauke Hes
>
If you are using the system 7.0 driver, the LaserPrep macros will be included
in the generated PostScript file.  If you are using a pre-7.0 driver, use the
cmd-k key combination to generate the PostScript file.  This prepends the
LaserPrep macros, whereas the cmd-f key combination does not.

- mark