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From: kuno@caen.engin.umich.edu (Harumi Anne Kuno)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Micrsoft Word printing to file
Message-ID: <42e7c1d5.5e37@dl5e37.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 89 16:51:00 GMT
References: <43289@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: kuno@caen.engin.umich.edu (Harumi Anne Kuno)
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In article <43289@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie> gsl3@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie (Generics Software Ltd.) writes:
>
>Could anyone help me ? In microsoft WORD it is possible to print
>to a file. The contents of the file certainly look as if it is
>postscript format. However, is it possible to simply dump this to 
>a laserprinter and expect it to print (naive, who me ?) or does
>word do some initialisation that is not save to this file.

Assuming that you are using Microsoft Word for the IBM, and also
assuming that you chose APPLASER as your printer option,
once you have your document printed to a file:
 
FROM DOS
 
     1. Use the DOS COPY command to concatenate the MSSETUP.PS file
        to the printed document at the beginning of the file.  

        The command will be:
 
        COPY MSSETUP.PS+<file> <file2>
 
        <file> is the file you printed the document into, and <file2> is
        a new file for the PostScript version of the printout.
 
     2. Using some kind of text editor, add the line
 
        %!
 
        to the beginning of <file2>.  Save and exit to DOS.
        MAKE SURE that the %! are the first two characters in the file and 
        are on   a line BY THEMSELVES. 
        
     3. Send <file2> to the printer.


//--- Harumi Kuno
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