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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Capturing Postscript output?
Message-ID: <94@esquire.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 13:05:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: esquire.94
Posted: Mon Jun  1 13:05:45 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 04:18:21 EDT
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Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Distribution: world
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
Lines: 33
Keywords: LaserWriter, Vax, PostScript
Summary: New LW header files...

In article <6937@alice.UUCP> d@alice.UUCP (Daniel Rosenberg) writes:
>I need to know if there is any way of capturing Postscript output
>from a Macintosh into a file. I'd like to take such a file, upload
>it to a VAX, and pump it out to a Postscript device.

This is exactly the problem I (and I suspect many other people) were having
until the wonderful Brian H. Powell at the University of Texas at Austin
posted paintps.shar to comp.sources.mac last week (we received it on 5/27).

Paintps takes a MacPaint file uploaded to a mainframe and prints it to
a LaserWriter (or other compatible PostScript device, I think).  This, by
itself is quite useful, but he also includes 3 different LaserPrep header
files (for versions 1.1, 3.1 and 3.3 of the Macintosh LaserWriter driver --
this corresponds to System 2.0/Finder 4.1, System 3.2/5.3 and System 3.3/5.4).

This means that any program that prints to the LW on the Mac can now print
on a remote LW connected to a Vax or whatever.  Just collect the PostScript
output (by holding down CMD-F when you click OK in the LW Print dialog box),
transfer it to your Vax, and use whichever of the header files is appropriate
for your version of the LW driver.  On a Unix system, that's:
"cat header-file postscript-file | lpr -Plw" or some such.

I've printed documents from Microsoft Word, Ready,Set,Go! 3, and MacDraw, all
without any problems.  I'm not sure if PageMaker will work, though, since they
use their own Prep file (Aldus Prep) -- at least they did in version 1.2.
If they still do, you may have problems.

Since our E-Mail doesn't work, I'd be happy to post the shar file to this
newsgroup since others may have missed it.  I normally don't repost stuff
that's just been posted, but in this case I think a great many people could
benefit.  And Brian, if you're listening, Thank you!  Thank you!!  Thank you!!!

- Steve