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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Printing to a LaserWriter (with WriteNow)?
Message-ID: <8993@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 May 89 15:10:56 GMT
References: <8848@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: Ali T. Ozer <ali@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: aozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer)
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In article <8848@csli.Stanford.EDU> Daniel M. Rosenberg writes:
>And the big question is, WriteNow doesn't print to our printer...
>[ OffendingCommand: setalpha ] or something. Is there a workaround
>here?

Under 0.8 WriteNow did not print on non-NeXT printers. 0.9 solves
that problem.

(You'll notice that the offending command is "setalpha," which is an
alpha-related PS operator added to Display PostScript by NeXT. Such
PS extensions are useful only on the screen in conjunction with compositing
and shouldn't have been generated by WriteNow when printing.)

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com