Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!omepd!psu-cs!reed!kamath From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: PostScript Message-ID: <12004@reed.UUCP> Date: 5 Mar 89 00:27:02 GMT References: Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 37 In article pk33+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Peter C. Kornelisse") writes: > >I'm using MS-Word on the Macintosh and I output my text to a PostScript-file. >After transfering such a PostScript-file to Unix I used uuencode before sending >this file to the Netherlands for printing to an Apple LaserWriter connected to a >SUN-network. The result was a blinking light of the LaserWriter (six times), but >no output of printed text and pictures. > >Can anyone tell me what to do, to get my text printed ? > >Bye, > >Peter Kornelisse. Congratulations! You've been Microsofted! :-) another truly amzing and interresting fact is that you can't encode some postscript in microsoft and have ti do what you want it to do. I'm thinking of a specific example in the "blue book" that does a rotation of a name. . . THe laserwrite sitting on a Mac network has hoards of really wonderful dictionaries for it. What happens, since I'm pretty certain you don't have a mac on the laserwriter network, is that you don't have these dictionaries loaded! I ran into this problem when I tried to get Postscript stucc to the NeXT machine. I managed to get images and stuff over pretty easily, but not having the dicts makes it sorta hard. Short of writing a little program to pretend a mac is a laserwriter and grab the code that gets downloaded to an laserwrite (so that you can later download it to the real laserwriter), I don't have an answer. Complain to microsoft (and Apple, for that matter). Sean kamath. -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: kamath@reed.BITNET ARPA: kamath%reed.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202-3126 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)