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From: mcguire@math.uiowa.edu (Charlie McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: PostScript and Word 4.0
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Date: 26 Feb 90 15:56:22 GMT
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From article <461@adimail.UUCP>, by tel@adimail.UUCP (Terry Monks):
> Many writers have been talking about printing Mac PostScript files on Unix, with
> or without modification to Dialogue boxes, macps, etc. 	I have written to many of these
> privately, and have found *not one* who can do this with Microsoft Word files. A call
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> and all I get is a blinking Laserwriter with no output.  PageMaker works fine, by the way.

I (and others in our department) send MicroSoft Word 4.0 postscript files
without the headers to Unix machines all the time. We have set up the Unix
machines to prepend a header file before sending to the printer. Currently
this works on a SUN 3/280 server with a LaserWriter Plus, a vax (bsd4.3) with
an HP LaserJet II (with postscript cartridge), and an Apollo with a LaserWriter
II NT.

I have never found a MAC application postscript file that did not work. 

Note that the LaserPrep file on the Unix machines requires some hacking to
eliminate some inits and status checks in order to work. Just sending the
the header generated on the Mac will not work. If you are using a "remote"
prep file, be sure it is the latest version. Another suggestion is to run
the Unix print driver in an interactive shell. This way you can look at any
error messages the LaserWriter might be returning.

Charlie McGuire
Systems Programmer
The University of Iowa: Dept. of Computer Science
mcguire@math.uiowa.edu
mcguire@cs.uiowa.edu
The University of Iowa