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From: kevina@apple.com (Kevin Andresen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Printing Postscript Files from a Mac on a Unix system
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Date: 14 Jun 91 21:28:39 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.172702.9085@dg-rtp.dg.com> 
steele@mountaindew.rtp.dg.com (Michael Steele) writes:
> Under System 7.0 on the Macintosh I have created a Postscript file 
> which I then uploaded to our DECstation and sent to our Laserwriter 
IINTX.
> 
> Since the Laserwriter hasn't been initialized with a Macintosh, it dies
> on special macros in the Postscript file.  I believe these macros are
> defined in the included file, AppleDict, and the Laserwriter doesn't 
> have AppleDict installed in memory.  Is there a way to include the
> AppleDict when creating the postscript file?  Or is there a way to put it
> on the DECstation so that the DECstation can initialize the printer?

If you captured the file using the new LaserWriter 7.0 driver, the 
LaserPrep initialization should be there; that is, AppleDict should be 
defined in the prologue of the PS file and nobody needs to "initialize" 
the printer first.  What kind of errors are you getting?

--Kevin Andresen [kevina@apple.com]
"You took the wind right out of my sails/It must be luff/It must be luff"