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From: towfigh@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mark Towfigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Help with Mac-generated PS files...
Message-ID: <2325@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 4 Apr 88 13:02:02 GMT
References: <993@nugipsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: towfigh@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mark Towfigh)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <993@nugipsy.UUCP> tcianflo@nugipsy.UUCP (Tom Cianflone) writes:
>
>Unfortunately, we can't seem to get the Mac-generated PostScript
>files to do anything but *print* on the printer.  That is, the
>printer looks at them as if they are something to print, not
>something to *do*.
>
>In any case, we tried sending these files to the printer a few
>different ways.  Queueing them through lpr -Pps (ps is our local
>id for the printer) just gets them printed out like text.
> [other attempts]

I just had to solve almost the exact same problem yesterday!  I was
trying to filter the PostScript through their filters like pscomm
and so on, very low-level things which you're not supposed to use
anyway.  Finally, after looking at every other man page reference, I
decided to dig up the 4.2BSD Line Printer Spooling Manual.  In this
manual, it directed me to /etc/printcap, which I had looked at
before.

In my earlier looking at the filters, I had also checked out a few
default PostScript files (like the one the system prints when there
is an error).  At the top of this, there was a %!, and I also found
reference to this in the man page for TRANSCRIPT.  Finally I
understood the answer staring me in the face:  I just had to put
that extra line at the top.  Now everything works fine, and yours
should too.

Boy, I hate little tricks like this.
-- 
Mark Towfigh       If there's one thing I like better than a bologna
                   and whipped cream sandwich, it's honey and ketchup.
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