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Subject: Re: LaserPrep vs. AldusPrep
Message-ID: <28990@sun.uucp>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 12:05:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 24 12:05:59 1987
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The lines that you have identified (with "exitserver") are exactly what you
do NOT want to include in the apd file.  That is the PostScript sequence
that cause all changes to become "permanent" until the printer is restarted.

I don't believe that it is possible to accomplish what you wish by merely
modifying the PostScript code.  You could redefine "exitserver" so that it
did nothing, but there would still be an end-of-file in the print stream
(indicated by the %%EOF when it is written to disk) that you cannot easily
remove or redefine.  The result would be that your prologue (AldusPrep)
would be treated as a separate print job (although it wouldn't print anything)
and the rest of the file would cause an immediate error (since the definitions
in AldusPrep would no longer be there).

Your only hope is to change the defaults in PageMaker.  You might try the
ResEdit program, and see if there are any resource constants that can be
modified.  Other than that, I would say you will have to just educate your
users to always use that mechanism.

I guess one way to "educate" them would be to change the exitserver password
on the printer.  This will prevent ANYTHING from being downloaded permanently
unless it is downloaded with the correct password.  This can be done as
follows (but don't forget the new password, or you're stuck!):

%!
serverdict begin
0 exitserver		% 0 is the password

statusdict begin
 123456 setpassword	% 123456 is the new password
end


If you need to reverse this, change the positions of the "0" and the
"123456" in this example.  You need the current password to change it.

I hope this helps.

Glenn Reid
Adobe Systems
PostScript Software Support
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