Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac files in postscript format Message-ID: <126900005@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 24 Mar 89 17:11:00 GMT References: <37608@bbn.COM> Lines: 62 Nf-ID: #R:bbn.COM:37608:p.cs.uiuc.edu:126900005:000:3266 Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Mar 24 11:11:00 1989 The "generating-postscript" file on sumex-aim.stanford is too skimpy. Can we put the following, expanded file on that machine? Who is the moderator I would send this too? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------ First, get a hold of some laserwriter/laserprep icons. There are several versions of postscript; your printer may not implement the latest version. Therefore, it may not be good to use the latest NT/NTX icons, since these assume a very recent version of postscript. For instance, it seems necessary to use the older Laserwriter / Laser Prep 4.0 icons of April 14, 1987 with imagen printers, whose ultrascript language is an early clone of postscript. If you consistently get postscript version errors when you print, then perhaps you should consider looking for these older icons. To generate a Postscript file from any Macintosh application, first go to the chooser, tell it you have appletalk hooked up (lie). If you really are using appletalk, then you will have problems if there is no laserwriter on the network. In this case, perhaps you will be forced to disconnect the appletalk cable from the back of your machine. Then select the LaserWriter (not the LaserWriter SC driver.) Turn Background Printing off if you are using MultiFinder. This will cause small formatting changes in most word processors, since the laserwriter has larger characters than the Imagewriter or other printers. Go to your word processors and correct the lines that have now changed. It is a good idea to leave the laserwriter selected all the time, if possible, so your documents are created with these changes already in place. Get ready to print the document in the normal fashion. When you see the LaserWriter dialog, click on OK and immediately type and hold either the K key or the F key. You must depress the key immediately within the first 1-2 seconds AFTER the dialog disappears. Do not use command-F or command-K, as there might be problems in depressing the key too soon after clicking OK on the dialog. If you get a message "looking for laserwriter", then you probably hit the key too late. The only difference between these commands is that command-K prepends the contents of Laser Prep to your Postscript output. This is essential if you are printing to a non-Apple printer. You should see a file called Postscript0 appear in the current folder. The next time you do it, if Postscript0 already exists, Postscript1 will be generated, etc. Keep in mind that if you are uploading this to another system (UNIX), a normal postscript file has its lines terminated by control-M. Many UNIX upload programs will attempt to convert control-M to control-J. Therefore, upload the postscript in BINARY mode, if possible. It is possible to upload a laserprep file once, and then save uploading it in future sessions. Just generate an empty postscript0 file, and edit it to extract the laserprep part. Upload this 28K file once, and you will save a lot of time in future sessions. ------------------------------------------------------------ Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801 ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies