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From: bjh@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRN40000[tls]-b.j.hudson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: CBM to VAX to MAC
Summary: Upload geoPaint; convert to Laser printer
Keywords: Geos , Laserwriter.
Message-ID: <3604@mtgzz.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 14:57:24 GMT
References: <1108@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
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Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
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In article <1108@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, warner@unc.cs.unc.edu (Byron Warner) writes:
> I propose to upload Geopaint files to my school's Vax.
> Then download them to to a Mac and have them Laserprinted

The geoPaint file format is not the same as documented for photoscraps.
The data compression algorithm is different and the data is by cards, 
not just raster scan.  After figuring it out on my own, I found out that
it is documented in files available from Q-Link.

I upload geoPaint files to the mainframe and convert them directly
to a bitmap image for the QMS laser printer.  The format for the
HP Laserjet or Postscript must be similar.  

Note that this will not work for geoWrite docs because the fonts are
not part of the geoWrite data file.   >> Does anyone have a Publaser
printer driver that redirects printer output to a disk file.  This
way if you do not have a Postscript printer directly attached to your
C-64, you can upload a file to a mainframe and then send it to a printer.
                                                         ......BJ