Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!occrsh!uokmax!blknowle 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 Lines: 47 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 -Brad Knowles UUCP: ...!ihnp4!occrsh!uokmax!blknowle ARPA: blknowle@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu SNAIL: 1013 Mobile Circle Norman, OK 73071-2522 Disclaimer: (The above opinions are my own. They have nothing to do with the Univeristy of Oklahoma nor intelligance of any sort. :-)