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From: mkb@rover.ri.cmu.edu (Mike Blackwell)
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Subject: Getting at the LaserPrep file
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Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 12:54:06 EDT
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The easiest way to get the LaserPrep header in text form is to print some
document, and hold down command-K right after you click on "OK", until the
"Creating PostScript" dialog box comes up. This will create a large text
PostScript file, the first part of which will be the LaserPrep header.

To use LaserPrep from another computer, edit it as follows: First, search
for the first ^D (control-D), and delete everything that follows (that's the
PostScript description of the document you printed). At the beginning of the
file, there's a line which contains a "setsccinteractive" command, which you
should comment out ('%' is the PostScript comment character). You might also
want to comment out the line starting with "waittimeout". If you don't want
Laser Prep permanently loaded each time you ship it to the printer, comment
out the "exitserver" line, and the first line of the file (probably all
zeros, the exitserver password). Lastly, if you're not going to be printing
files with bit smoothing turned on, get rid of the very long hex string at
the end of the file, and comment out the line before with the "eexec" command.

You can now prepend this file to any Mac generated PostScript file (created
with command-F), and it will print out.

Thanks to Glenn Reid at Adobe, who posted the command-K trick to
info-postscript.

		cheers, -m-	mkb@rover.ri.cmu.edu