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From: sarrel@oboe.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Generating PostScript files
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Date: 10 Jul 88 23:20:31 GMT
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In article <17000114@clio> brewer@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes:
>	To get a standard Mac application to create a postscript file,
>go to print dialog as you normally would. Then click on the OK button,
>but as soon as you do that, hold down Command-F. Keep it held down
>until the little dialog box at the top of the screen says something
>like "Saving Postscript file." It will be saved in a file called
>Postscript0, just like the way screen dumps are saved.
>
>	If you want to have the LaserPrep header that is required to
>set up some definitions that the postscript file uses, then substitute
>Command-K for the Command-F above.


All of the above sounds reasonable, although I have another question.
I would like to then upload that postscript file from my mac to a unix
box (either a sun or a pyramid) and then dump it to a postscript
printer.  We have a DataProducts 308 and a LaserWriter+.  Which should
I use, Command-F or Command-K?  One of the operators (an undergrad)
here thought that I couldn't just dump the postscript to the printer.
He said there was some other stuff I had to prepend to the file in
order for things to work.Has anybody done this successfully?  What is
it that I have to prepend?

I want to do this to avoid having to bring pagemaker in on three
floppies and then spend 15 minutes swapping disks (they only have
single drive systems) just to print out my work.  (which brings up
another question:  do I have to do anything differently if I use the
Aldus Prep instead of the Laser Prep?)

advTHANKSance
--marc
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 Marc Sarrel, Department of Computer and Information Science
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