Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!irisa!decouty
From: decouty@irisa.UUCP (Bertrand Decouty)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: are you tired of this question yet?
Keywords: LaTeX, TeX, Dvi2ps, Macintosh, LaserPrep
Message-ID: <819@irisa.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 88 09:42:41 GMT
References: <8811120047.AA06427@garnet.berkeley.edu> <249@laas.laas.fr>
Organization: I.R.I.S.A., Rennes, Fr
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In article <249@laas.laas.fr> ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
|> print either.  E.g., I used
|> 
|> 	macfilter PostScript0 | lpr -Plw
|> 
|
|I've gotten this to work.  Basically my macfilter, would prepend a slightly
|edited version of `LaserPrep', Mac's adorable file.  To run from Unix, some
|of the privileged initializations have to be removed.  Then you just
|have your macfilter send out the modified LaserPrep and your
|PostScript0 file should be generated by command-F (only the file in

	Yes, but the two laserprep (the one used by macfilter and the one
used on the mac) MUST have the same revision/version  number. I have succeeded
in printing, using lpr, a macdraw file with laserprep 4.0 ( appledict version #65). 
Only one line has to be commented, the one calling ok procedure.

|> I feel that if I can just get the file to print using lpr then I can
|> get it to print in my latex document (I'm already including postscript
|> stuff in my latex file that I made with Poskanzer's pbm programs).
|
|Unfortunately, my conclusion for now is IMPOSSIBLE.  The best that
|I've been able to do is to get a Mac image inserted in LaTeX on a page
|by itself, with no control left to dvi2ps to number or title the page.
|I still haven't been able to eliminate the `showpage' command that's
|hidden under LaserPrep's `cp' command.  I believe that the problem
|requires an expert of LaserPrep and PostScript.
|
|If anybody has succeeded I'd love to hear about it.
|
|Ralph P. Sobek			  Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own.

Yes, I have! I used laserprep 4.0, a modified psfig (from Trevor Darrell), 
dvi2ps (or now dvips from Rockiki) and all is OK on our Laserwriter IINT.
We work on Sun 3. Mac test file was a Macdraw file.

To eliminate showpage action, insert:
/showpage {} def

This is done in psfig.pro (which works for all ps files, not only mac), 
together with a 
/cp {pop pop} bind def
in dvi(2)ps.pro

I can send you my stuff, you are not very far -)-)

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