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From: howard@mtunj.ATT.COM (H. Moskovitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Postscript Download Help Summary
Message-ID: <30@mtunj.ATT.COM>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 15:49:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: mtunj.30
Posted: Mon Aug 10 15:49:35 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Aug-87 05:30:38 EDT
Organization: The Second Door on the Right
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Once again, I'd like to thank all of the people who helped me with my
Postscript problems. To summarize, I wanted a way to capture the PS
output of applications like MacWrite, download the PS code to my work
computer (a Vax running Sys V) and print it out on a spooled LW connected
to one of our systems. The procedure that developed is as follows:

	1) Capture the PS into a file on Mac. This is done by selecting
	   a print dialog as if you were going to print to a LW on Appletalk.
	   Click the 'GO' button and IMMEDIATELY HOLD the command(apple)-F
	   key until the message "Saving Postscript(TM) File..." appears.
	   The PS code is dumped into a file called Postscript0 (or0-9).
	   This code is missing the Apple Laser Prep file (which is ~30K).

	2) Download the PS code to your host via your favorite file transfer
	   program. I use Kermit.

	3) Prepend the Laser Prep file to PS you downloaded. I received a nifty
	   little shell that looks at a line in your PS file and determines
	   which version of the Laser Prep file you need and prepends it. I
	   received copies of the appropriate prep files as well.

	4) If on UNIX, you should run your file through a utility that filters
	   unprintable characters and converts them to ASCII hex codes that LW
	   can read. This avoids problems that the 'lp' system has. I got the
	   filter to do that.

	5) Send the results to the LW via your spooling facility. We have a
	   program called psa here that sends raw PS to the LW. However, it
	   is part of a larger spooling system that was developed here. There
	   is another PS spooling package running around on the net for UNIX.
	   (if you want it I could point you in the right direction).

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		Howard Moskovitz
	AT&T Bell Labs @ Liberty Corner, NJ
		ihnp4!io!howard