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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: help printing MAC postscript files
Keywords: postscript, UNIX
Message-ID: <983@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 89 18:22:50 GMT
References: <4024@mtuxo.att.com> <219@adobe.COM>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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In article <219@adobe.COM> bezanson@adobe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson) writes:
>Hope this helps. If you have any problems with the above techniques, send me
>some email and I'll compile a list of areas people have problems in. I'd like
>to work with someone at Apple and create the definitive guide of bringing your
>Mac/Apple LaserPrep generated files to other machines for downloading to 
>PostScript(tm) printers.
>
>Good luck.
>------------------------------------
>Brian Bezanson
>Adobe Systems Inc.
>bezanson@adobe.com

I wish someone at Adobe would hit the people at Apple over the head.
Why should this stuff remain so undocumented?  There's so much
misinformation going around about how to print PS files from the Mac
that you'd think someone at Apple would clean things up once and for
all.

Worst of all, once you finally get a LaserPrep header file, you *still*
can't just send it to a PS printer.  You have to munge around with it
some.  What a pain.

And as a previous poster noted, the result is not at all suitable for
inclusion in other documents, since Apple uses absolute addressing.
Feh.

Clean this stuff up, Apple.  For a company so concerned with
"connectivity" of late, this really borders on the shameful.  No one is
asking you to dump QuickDraw for Display Postscript, but it would be
nice if the Postscript you *did* generate was useable on a
non-Macintosh system.

And to anyone who wants the "prepfix" package which does the munging
for you, let me know.  It was also posted to comp.binaries.mac
recently, so you might be able to get it from an archive site as well.

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