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From: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PostScript from MS Word
Message-ID: <436@ima.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 11:51:31 EST
Article-I.D.: ima.436
Posted: Wed Dec 31 11:51:31 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Dec-86 20:52:07 EST
References: <476@unc.unc.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
Organization: Javelin Software Corporation
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Summary: Word speaks postscript quite adequately

In article <476@unc.unc.UUCP> mcguffey@unc.UUCP (Michael McGuffey) writes:
>If I "print file" from MS Word v3.0 with applaser.prd as the printer, shouldn't
>I get a PostScript file as output?  I may be doing something wrong, but I am
>getting a file in the MSPRINT format ...
>...  If anybody has written a MSPRINT -> PostScript filter, I
>would be interested in getting a copy of it.

MS Word comes with a PostScript interpreter for MS Print files -- that's how
it prints on the laserwriter.  The interpreter is in APPLASER.INI.  Send that
to your laserwriter followed by the MS Print output and it works just fine.
-- 
John R. Levine, Javelin Software Corp., Cambridge MA +1 617 494 1400
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