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From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: Postscript Previewing?
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Date: 15 Jan 89 17:09:21 GMT
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It is not too difficult to configure a PostScript printer in the spooling
system which is either connected to another host, or is a real postscript
printer (NEC LC890, LaserWriter, etc) on the serial port.

The problem is that some of the PostScript code generated by the NeXT
applications has non-standard postscript operator.  These look like they
are alpha-channel related.  You can download a bunch of stub routines to
the printer, and things seem to work after that.

Note that just about all of the Adobe Transcript package is provided, including
pscomm.  But why no psgrind?




Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming