Xref: utzoo comp.lang.postscript:9061 comp.sys.mac.system:7482 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury!einstein!adm From: adm@einstein.canterbury.ac.nz (Andrew McGregor) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Printing Postscript Files from a Mac on a Unix sy Message-ID: <1991Jun18.181517.1129@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Date: 18 Jun 91 06:15:16 GMT References: <1991Jun13.172702.9085@dg-rtp.dg.com> Reply-To: adm@einstein.canterbury.ac.nz (Andrew McGregor) Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: einstein.phys.canterbury.ac.nz 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? |> -- I found a utility that does this on apple.com (sorry, can't find the IP address), it's called macPs , it's in /ArchiveVol2/Postscript and works great. It needs a copy of Laser Prep uploaded as well as the file to print. It runs as a filter when sending the file to the printer driver, and edits in a version of laser prep. A.D. Mcgregor