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From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple // Programmer's Consortium
Keywords: 3.5" disks, SmartPort, UDC
Message-ID: <52095@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 01:24:12 GMT
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Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <9129@wpi.wpi.edu> ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray) writes:
>Ah, but version 3 of Publish It! will have the capability of printing
>postscript to disk. Simple matter of transfering the output to a mainframe
>with a postscript laser or even (though the suggestion makes me sick :) to a
>Mac to get printouts.  Or even just distribute the postscript output via the
>net for a "print it yourself" magazine.  Publish It! 3 I think ships in March
>or April. 

It would be great if Publish It! had an option to print postscript directly
to a file ON A MAC HFS 3.5" FORMATTED DISK in an Apple ][ SmartPort-based
drive.  Kinko's used to have Macs in their store for printing (at least when
I was in school), or you could probably find some other place with a
Mac/LaserWriter and just pop in the diskette (in case you don't have a modem
and upload software).

Of course, if something like this were added, I wouldn't want it to be GS
SmartPort-specific, since my Apple ][+ and //e can handle the Laser UDC.

One of my gripes is that a certain 3.5" format utility that was uploaded to
comp.binaries.apple2 (aka Apple2-L) was GS-specific, and I can't use it on
my Apple 3.5 Drive just because I don't have a GS to go with it.

Brian Willoughby
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