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From: cew@mtuxo.att.com (XMP14-C.WALKER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: help printing MAC postscript files
Keywords: postscript, UNIX
Message-ID: <4024@mtuxo.att.com>
Date: 13 Jan 89 22:23:22 GMT
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
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Help!

Does anybody know how to print out a MAC postscript file on a laser
printer that is attached to a UNIX machine?

I have generated a postscript file on the MAC using a command-k from
the PRINT window and up-loaded the file to my UNIX machine via the
XMODEM text file transfer program.  When I send the file to my postscript
printer (a QMS-PS 800 II) from the UNIX machine, nothing comes out.
Is there something special that I have to do to the MAC file to print it
on a general postscript printer (it has what seems to be the MAC
postscript header that defines a number of postscript routines)?

I have used UNIX-based packages to generate postscript files and have
been successful in printing them on the QMS, so there must be
something unique about the MAC file.  It was generated on a MAC SE
attached to a Apple LaserWriter II and using the NT/NXT icons and
laserprep files.

I have even generated and up-loaded the file several times to make sure
it isn't a transmission error with no luck.  I'm not sure what to try next.

If you have solved this or a similar problem, please let me know by
e-mail.

Thanks,

Carl Walker