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In article <2548@clyde.concordia.ca> gpkatch@maxwell.Concordia.CA
(Gary Katch) writes:

> The text below was produced by MicroSoft Works word processor, with
> chosen printer Apple Laserwriter II with down-loadable fonts.  The file
> was printed to disk on the PC, and then uploaded to the UNIX box at
> work.  The file will not print on the Laserwriter, nor will ULTRIX's
> previewer understand it.  I looked at a book on PostScript and cannot
> find any commands like the ones in the file.

This file illustrates what some consider to be a deplorable style of
application-writing.  The application has assumed that its own
personal dictionary defining each of these operators has already been
downloaded to the printer, and made resident.  The deplorable part is
that, as we have found running 5 or 10 Postscript-speaking
applications on 100 Suns, each package wants its own dictionary loaded
resident in the printer.  Not only does this fill up the memory of the
printer and cause name conflicts, but then the laserprinter password
has to be embedded in n different applications.  Yuck.

You should be able to find some sort of switch or setup toggle on
Works that will make it dump the prologue defining these operators at
the head of the file.  You might have to fool Works into thinking that
each printout is the first made to the printer since a powerup (hence
the prologue is needed to be downloaded).


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