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From: alanj@ibmpcug.UUCP (Alan Jay)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Micrsoft Word printing to file
Message-ID: <10722@ibmpcug.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 13:58:39 GMT
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article 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.
>Thanks in advance !
>

Microsoft word does not write TRUE postScript.  A file must be downloaded
or sent prior to the word print file that processes the file into true
postscript.

What Microsoft have done is avoided all the long names used by PostScript 
and have a header file that converts the shhort codes generated by MS-Word
into the full PostScript names.

The file is called POSTSCRL.INI and must be downloaded prior to each document 
or made permenant in memory in the postscipt printer.

Hope this helps

Alan Jay

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