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From: iemasgn@prism.gatech.EDU (Gautham,Nalamada)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: printing postscript files
Message-ID: <6161@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 20 Feb 90 01:44:07 GMT
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>In article <6461@cps3xx.UUCP> davisd@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (Dug) writes:
>  I was wondering if anyone out there prints Mac generated postscript
>files using Unix.  I've been trying with no luck.  Here's what I do:
>	Usually from inside MS Word 4.0, at the print dialog after clicking
>	OK I hit command-K.  It creates a postscript file, and then I
>	kermit the file over to Unix.  I then use "lpr" and the file
>	prints as if it was a text file. I get pages and pages of
>	postsciprt commands.
>  Is there something I'm forgetting to do?


You can print postscript files generated by using command-k only
on Apple laserwriters. If you do have one, then lpr must not be
having some filters, if not you have to use software like macps*
to print the files


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--Gautham
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