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From: brian@ut-sally.UUCP (Brian H. Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Capturing Postscript output?
Message-ID: <8221@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 12:49:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.8221
Posted: Mon Jun  8 12:49:07 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jun-87 03:19:51 EDT
References: <6937@alice.UUCP> <94@esquire.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Summary: PageMaker and maclaser--How to do it.


     Concerning the ability of maclaser (the Unix program for printing Mac
output on Unix LaserWriters) to print PageMaker output:

In article <94@esquire.UUCP>, sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
> 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.

     PageMaker 2.0 has the ability to generate output using either their Aldus
Prep or Apple's LaserPrep.  If you set this option to LaserPrep, you can use
cmd-F to generate the PostScript and use maclaser as is.  I haven't taken much
of a look at the new Aldus Prep, but I think you could also persuade it to
work in this situation also.  (There are sometimes advantages to using
AldusPrep instead of LaserPrep, and vice-versa.)

Brian