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From: clark@ssc-vax.UUCP (Roger Clark Swann)
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Subject: Nee help with Postscript
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*** line eater food ***

I need some help from some of you laser experts in regards to running an
Apple Laser Writer from an Mentor/Apollo system.

We have a network of Mentor workstations (Apollo Hardware) with Mentor's
Postsricpt server driving an Apple Laser Writer. Things work OK when
the output files are generated using Mentor's DOC tool. However,
when trying to print plain old ascii type files to the Laser Writer
things get VERY restricted. There is only one font available and the
page margins appear to be fixed. Modifying the config file does nothing.

Correct me if I am wrong here, but as I understand Postsript, it has
all sorts of bells and whistles. Some of the things we would like to
do is to rotate the print on the page by 90 degrees, print two pages
of text reduced on one page, have a large selection of font styles
and sizes.

The documentation from Mentor regarding Postscript simply mentions
the word 'Postscript' and that's it. As far as I can tell, Mentor has
taken Postscript and added their own interface to make it work in
the IDEA environment. In the process, they have prevented the user
from having any access to Postscript.

So, am I all wet or what?

I would like to here some comments on the above and maybe some hints.

Also, can someone point me to a good description of Postscript and
what it is really capable of doing?

Thanks		Roger Swann 	uw-beaver!ssc-vax!clark