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From: blknowle@uokmax.UUCP (Bradford L Knowles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Generating PostScript files
Message-ID: <1512@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 88 17:51:16 GMT
References: <2393@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <17000114@clio> <17465@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: blknowle@uokmax.UUCP (Bradford L Knowles)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <17465@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> sarrel@oboe.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes:
>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.

For the first file, use command-K.  For all following files, use
command-F.  We use a program that automatically downloads the LaserPrep
file (if it is not there already) and then downloads the file proper, and
as such, we always use command-F because the LeserPrep file is always
there when we need it.  This is similar to having the system automatically
download the LaserPrep file to a just turned-on LaserWriter, but is not
quite as well automated.

>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?

LaserPrep is the file to be prepended, which as was stated can be
obviated by using Command-K for the first file to be printed.

>...                                              (which brings up
>another question:  do I have to do anything differently if I use the
>Aldus Prep instead of the Laser Prep?)

I have no experience with Aldus Prep, but I suspect it would work the
same.

>
>advTHANKSance
>--marc
>-=-
> Marc Sarrel, Department of Computer and Information Science
> The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH USA 43210-1277
> sarrel@cis.ohio-state.edu
> "If you wanna have fun, go to Washington.  Spokane!"  -- Cleric Apton

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