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From: umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 and PostScript printing to file
Message-ID: <1991May31.020609.5174@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 06:06:09 GMT
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We've had lots of gripes about how large the new LaserPrinter print to file
files are and how life was so much better under 6.0.7. I'd just like to defend
Apple on this one by stating that I tried very hard using about 6 different
programs to patch the postscript at either the Mac or the UNIX end, and I only
once managed to get a 6.07 postcript disk file to print on our UNIX system. To
do that, I had to use som LaserWriter driver that was about six years old, and
some of my fancy fonts weren't printed properly.

The new scheme may eat up lots of temporary disk space and transfer time, but
it *works* and I for one thank Apple for it.

Maynard Handley