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From: paul@vixie.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.text,net.micro.mac
Subject: (wanted) software to make PostScript from plain text files
Message-ID: <181@vixie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 22:21:07 EST
Article-I.D.: vixie.181
Posted: Tue Oct 28 22:21:07 1986
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Reply-To: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq)
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Organization: Vixie Enterprises, San Mateo, CA
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I have an Apple LaserWriter connected to a VAX.  I want to be able to send
plain text files to the printer; the printer wants PostScript.  I was hoping
that there would be some sequence of PostScript commands I could prepend to
the file and have everything come out nice and paginated---this seems not to
be true.  I was hoping that I could send the printer temporarily into Diablo
mode (can't leave it that way all the time because sometimes I **DO** have to
print PostScript)---this, also, seems not to be possible.

So, what do I have to do to my text to make the LaserWriter understand it?
Eventually I have to write a VMS Print Symbiont to do the work, but any code
that does the transformations (even extremely simplistic ones) will be a
great help.  Any general algorithym to do the work will be a great help.
Heck, any advice at all will be a great help.

Send mail, I'll summarize.  Thanks...


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Paul A. Vixie       arpa: paul@vixie.UUCP, nike!ptsfa!vixie!paul@seismo.CSS.GOV
San Mateo, Calif    uucp: {ptsfa,qantel,fortune,crash,winfree}!vixie!paul