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From: schaub@sugar.UUCP (Markus Schaub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Print to Postscript?
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 11:29:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 11:29:09 1987
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: psc print text on a LaserWriter

In article <4VTpeRy00XoDzE004j@andrew.cmu.edu>, jk3n+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Stephen Kalucki) writes:
  
> to be able to print files from the standard utilities, and not have to run
> them through a special filter (but that would be ok too). I guess I am
...

hi out there,

all I can offer you is a program I use to print my program listings on the
LaserWriter. I called it 'psc' and it supports the following.
- one column printing with default or user defined font and size
  psc -12 -f Helvetica-Bold myfile
- two column printing which looks like copying two pages onto one sheet.
  +------+------+
  | Col1 | Col2 |  I like this for listings because you get a lot of text
  |      |      |  on one page.
  +------+------+
- select header printing, startpage and endpage.
- write the postscript data to stdout or read a postscript file and just
  transmit it to the printer.
- more, I don't even know, there's a lot of options in it.

It is written in Modula-2 for M2Amiga, so the source won't be very useful to
you unless you also buy the compiler (Would be a smart idea :-).
Interested in the object file? (anybody?)

Known problems: I used SER: to print, with the input buffering I don't
care about messages coming back from the printer. But very useful and
fast anyways.

- Markus