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From: rick@ut-emx.UUCP (Rick Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Sending PostScript through the printer driver
Message-ID: <1344@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 15:31:19 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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The following code fragment for sending a PostScript job to a laser printer
works under LaserWriter v3.2, but not 5.0.  Can anyone tell me why not? 
If no, does anyone have a code fragment that uses the pict comment
method of sending PostScript?

Rick Watson
University of Texas Computation Center
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	prdrvropen();
	prctlcall(iprdevctl, lprreset, 0L, 0L);
	prctlcall(iprioctl, ptr-to-postscript, length-of-postscript, 1L);
	prctlcall(iprdevctl, lprpageend, 0L, 0L);
	prdrvrclose();