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From: blackman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Michael Blackman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: AppleWorks GS and PostScript
Message-ID: <6734@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 28 Feb 89 21:48:37 GMT
References: <6711@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <8982@claris.com>
Reply-To: blackman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Michael Blackman)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <8982@claris.com> scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) writes:
>> Has anyone successfully printed saved PostScript files on a Laser?
>> Unfortunately, the fonts all came out stretched (i.e. EXACTLY the way
>
>First, do they look **exactly** the way they do on the screen?  Same
>[...] The stretchedness should be taken care
>of in Page Setup by selecting Condensed mode.  That generates output basically
>the same as a Mac.

Lo and behold, after you told me this, I looked on page 16 of the AWGS
Reference Manual, where it describes exactly what I needed to know about
condensed fonts.  And I tried it out on the Laser, and everything was
beautiful.  Hooray.

Unfortunately, with the way the AWGS sends each page in a separate
GrafPort, (which also messes up ImageWriter draft mode) the PostScript
file only contains the last page of the document.  If the LaserWriter
driver could simply pick a unique name other than "POSTSCRIPT.GS" then I
could still copy each of my pages in a different file to the Mac and
print them.  As it is, I have extensive editing to do to send any
good-sized file to the Laser.  (I'm using the WP module, by the way, but
I think the printer driver problem is universal)

You said the "demo worked :-)"  Was their demo multi-page?

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